How to use WebRequest to POST some data and read response?

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Published on 2010-05-18T19:56:33Z Indexed on 2010/05/18 20:10 UTC
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Need to have the server make a POST to an API, how do I add POST values to a WebRequest object and how do I send it and get the response (it will be a string) out?

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