I'm using an API that requires me to set the method to GET and include a message body. However when I try to do this I get the following error: "Cannot send a content-body with this verb-type". I read that the HttpWebRequest class does not support this and is the reason for the exception. Is there a work around?
This is my current code: data is a json string encoded as a byte array
HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url) as HttpWebRequest;
request.Method = "GET";
request.ContentType = "application/json";
request.ContentLength = data.Length;
using (Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream()) {
requestStream.Write(data.ToArray(), 0, (int)data.Length);
}
This is the PHP code I'm trying to emulate
<?php
$data = array("id" => "1234");
$data_string = json_encode($data);
$ch = curl_init('url');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_string))
);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
var_dump($result);
?>
Thank you,