How get the rest API response

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Hello,

I try to read the data from rest API, but I am getting response in below format.

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What I have tried:

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)

WebRequest.Create(URL);

request.Method = "POST";

request.ContentType = "application/json";

request.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.AcceptEncoding, "gzip");

string postData = my json Data;

byte[] data = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);

request.ContentLength = data.Length;

using (Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
requestStream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
}

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

string response_data = "";

try
{
using (StreamReader streamIn = new StreamReader((request.GetResponse()).GetResponseStream()))
{
response_data = streamIn.ReadToEnd();
streamIn.Close();
}
}
catch
{

}

Response.write(response_data);

Posted 18-May-16 21:08pm

Member 12185721

Updated 18-May-16 21:16pm

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Member 11902764 · Answer 1 · 2016-05-18T21:16:00

Try like this.

C#

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)
WebRequest.Create(URL);
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/json";
request.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.AcceptEncoding, "gzip");
string postData = my json Data;
byte[] data = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
request.ContentLength = data.Length;
using (Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
     requestStream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
}
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
string response_data = "";
try
{
      WebHeaderCollection header = response.Headers;
      var encoding = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII;
      using (var reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream(), encoding))
      {
           response_data  = reader.ReadToEnd();
      }
}
catch
{
}