using httpRequest headers?

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byte[] requestBytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(message);
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "text/xml;charset=utf-8";
request.ContentLength = requestBytes.Length;
request.Headers.Add(string.format("infoAsString, {0}", infoAsString))

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

iv tried this and in debug when code reaches the request.Headers it throws : Specified value does not have a ':' separator. Parameter name: header

Also tried:

request.Headers.Add("infoAsString, {0}", infoAsString)

&

request.Headers.Add("infoAsString : {0}", infoAsString)

&

request.Headers.Add(infoAsString)

no joy...please advise

I'm surprised it compiled some of those. – Ian1971 Feb 04 '14 at 12:54 — Ian1971, Feb 04 '14 at 12:54

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 04 '14 at 12:53

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Headers is a NameValueCollection and takes members with a name and a value.

You should be doing

request.Headers.Add("infoAsString", infoAsString)

answered Feb 04 '14 at 12:53

Ian1971

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thanks for the help. I tried this and it seems to work ok (No errors) but when debug going to requestStream.Write(requestBytes, 0, requestBytes.Length);, and the debug jumps over to the server, infoAsString is coming back as NULL....any idea as to why? – John Feb 04 '14 at 12:55
Can you post your server code where it tries to read the header? – Ian1971 Feb 05 '14 at 11:03

using httpRequest headers?

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