I am currently creating a C# application to tie into a php / MySQL online system. The application needs to send post data to scripts and get the response.

When I send the following data

username=test&password=test  

I get the following responses...

Starting request at 22/04/2010 12:15:42  
Finished creating request : took 00:00:00.0570057  
Transmitting data at 22/04/2010 12:15:42  
Transmitted the data : took 00:00:06.9316931       <<--
Getting the response at 22/04/2010 12:15:49  
Getting response 00:00:00.0360036  
Finished response 00:00:00.0360036  
Entire call took 00:00:07.0247024  

As you can see it is taking 6 seconds to actually send the data to the script, I have done further testing bye sending data from telnet and by sending post data from a local file to the url and they dont even take a second so this is not a problem with the hosted script on the site.

Why is it taking 6 seconds to transmit the data when it is two simple strings?

I use a custom class to send the data

class httppostdata
{
    WebRequest request;
    WebResponse response;

    public string senddata(string url, string postdata)
    {
        var start = DateTime.Now;
        Console.WriteLine("Starting request at " + start.ToString());

        // create the request to the url passed in the paramaters
        request = (WebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);


        // set the method to post
        request.Method = "POST";
        // set the content type and the content length
        request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
        request.ContentLength = postdata.Length;
        // convert the post data into a byte array
        byte[] byteData = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postdata);
        var end1 = DateTime.Now;
        Console.WriteLine("Finished creating request : took " + (end1 - start));

        var start2 = DateTime.Now;
        Console.WriteLine("Transmitting data at " + start2.ToString());
        // get the request stream and write the data to it
        Stream dataStream = request.GetRequestStream();
        dataStream.Write(byteData, 0, byteData.Length);
        dataStream.Close();
        var end2 = DateTime.Now;
        Console.WriteLine("Transmitted the data : took " + (end2 - start2));


        // get the response
        var start3 = DateTime.Now;
        Console.WriteLine("Getting the response at " + start3.ToString());


        response = request.GetResponse();
        //Console.WriteLine(((WebResponse)response).StatusDescription);
        dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
        var end3 = DateTime.Now;
        Console.WriteLine("Getting response " + (end3 - start3));

        // read the response
        string serverresponse = reader.ReadToEnd();
        var end3a = DateTime.Now;
        Console.WriteLine("Finished response " + (end3a - start3));

        Console.WriteLine("Entire call took " + (end3a - start));

        //Console.WriteLine(serverresponse);
        reader.Close();
        dataStream.Close();
        response.Close();

        return serverresponse;
    }
}

And to call it I use

private void btnLogin_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    // string postdata;

    if (txtUsername.Text.Length < 3 || txtPassword.Text.Length < 3)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("Missing your username or password.");
    }
    else
    {
        string postdata = "username=" + txtUsername.Text +
                          "&password=" + txtPassword.Text;

        httppostdata myPost = new httppostdata();
        string response = myPost.senddata("http://www.domainname.com/scriptname.php", postdata);
        MessageBox.Show(response);
    }
}