POST to a webpage from C# app

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Published on 2010-05-17T15:19:34Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 15:31 UTC
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I've been looking/asking around and can't seem to figure this one out. I have a C# application and need to be able to gather some data in the app, pop open a web browser and POST some data to it.

I can POST to the site from within the app fine and I can obviously pop open IE to a certain link but I can't do both. I can't POST to that link directly. Any ideas on how to accomplish this?

    private void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding();
        string postData = "Fullname=Test";
        byte[] data = encoding.GetBytes(postData);

        // Prepare web request...
        HttpWebRequest myRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://www.url.com/Default.aspx");
        myRequest.Method = "POST";
        myRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
        myRequest.ContentLength = data.Length;

        Stream newStream = myRequest.GetRequestStream();

        // Send the data.
        newStream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
        System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(myRequest.Address.ToString()); //open browser
        newStream.Close();
    }

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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