UTF8 Encoding C# Webrequest

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try something like this:

StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader (receiveStream, Encoding.UTF8);
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Updated on June 09, 2022

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  • user2153497
    user2153497 over 1 year

    i`m trying to make a webrequest and send a post data in Hebrew but the server side get it like "?????" and not in hebrew.

        WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(MyserverClient.Url + Constants.TaskUpdatePropertyURL);
    ((HttpWebRequest)request).AllowAutoRedirect = false;
    ((HttpWebRequest)request).KeepAlive = true;
    
    request.Method = "POST";
    request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;";
    request.Headers.Add("Pragma: no-cache");
    request.Headers.Add(string.Format("Cookie: {0}", Client.phpId));
        request.Headers.Add(string.Format("requesttoken: {0}", requestToken));
    
        string postData = "Some Non-english text";      
        using (Stream dataStream = request.GetRequestStream())
    {
        byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);                
        dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);               
        dataStream.Close();
    }
    
        try{
         HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
                    // Get the stream containing content returned by the server.
             Stream dataStream2 = response.GetResponseStream ();
                    // Open the stream using a StreamReader for easy access.
            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader (dataStream2);
                    // Read the content. 
            responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd ();
        }
     return responseFromServer;
    
            } 
    

    as i was saying, for a non-english the server get the post data as "???? ???-??????? ????" but i should be "Some Non-english text" any Suggestions??

  • AltF4_
    AltF4_ over 5 years
    This one doesn't seem to work properly for me anymore VS 2017 .net4.5
  • Yonatan Kiron
    Yonatan Kiron over 5 years
    @AltF4_ Yah, this post is from 2014, it's still may work for older versions