how to store the return value of https POSTmethod in C#

Question

let just say i want to save the value of the

 POST` method "[https://api.dropbox.com/1/oauth/request_token][1]" 

in a variable called

 `accessToken` of type `string`

(lets just asume that the post method retuns string for the sake of simplicity) in c# .. How to do it ?

Answer 1

First you have to decalre a string variable, like this:

string httpReturnValue = "";

To get the value and store it in the string you have to do this:

var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("YOUR URL");

// For example
var postData = "thing1=hello";
    postData += "&thing2=world";

var data = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(postData);

request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
request.ContentLength = data.Length;

using (var stream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
    stream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
}

var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

var httpReturnValue= new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();

The code is from here: HTTP request with post.