How to make an HTTP POST web request

There are several ways to perform HTTP GET and POST requests: Method A: HttpClient (Preferred) Available in: .NET Framework 4.5+, .NET Standard 1.1+, .NET Core 1.0+ . It is currently the preferred approach, and is asynchronous and high performance. Use the built-in version in most cases, but for very old platforms there is a NuGet package. Setup It is recommended to instantiate one HttpClient for your application’s … Read more

Unable to read data from the transport connection : An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

This error usually means that the target machine is running, but the service that you’re trying to connect to is not available. (Either it stopped, crashed, or is busy with another request.) In English: The connection to the machine (remote host/server/PC that the service runs at) was made but since the service was not available on that machine, the … Read more

Html.Partial vs Html.RenderPartial & Html.Action vs Html.RenderAction

Html.Partial returns a String. Html.RenderPartial calls Write internally and returns void. The basic usage is: In the snippet above, both calls will yield the same result. While one can store the output of Html.Partial in a variable or return it from a method, one cannot do this with Html.RenderParti Html.Partial returns a String. Html.RenderPartial calls Write internally and returns void. The basic usage is: In the snippet above, both calls will yield … Read more

Cannot send a content-body with this verb-type

Don’t get the request stream, quite simply. GET requests don’t usually have bodies (even though it’s not technically prohibited by HTTP) and WebRequest doesn’t support it – but that’s what calling GetRequestStream is for, providing body data for the request. Given that you’re trying to read from the stream, it looks to me like you actually want to get the response and read the response stream … Read more