Is it possible to send content body with get request in c# using HTTP 1.1

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_{Wednesday, March 5, 2014 3:39 PM}

Is it possible to send content body with get request in c# using HTTP 1.1(RFC 2616). I also Need How to implement this in c#. I am getting protocol violation exception:can't send content body with this verb type.

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_{Wednesday, March 5, 2014 4:57 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Hi,

take a look at this discussion:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3981564/cannot-send-a-content-body-with-this-verb-type

Although it is not prohibited to send a body with a get-request it is not recommended!

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_{Friday, March 14, 2014 6:42 AM ✅Answered}

Hi Dineshkumar,

The get request has no request body, why you want to send content body with it? http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#sec9.3. Maybe what you need is to rethink requirement.

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_{Wednesday, March 5, 2014 5:12 PM}

Thanks thomas. But i need to implement this in my c# code using Http 1.1(RFC 2616). Is it possible using any nuget packages or third party tools.

_{Saturday, November 24, 2018 1:54 PM}

getting following error msg:**
{"Cannot send a content-body with this verb-type."}**

public TResponse GetData<TResponse, TRequest>(string partialUrl, TRequest request,
            IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, IEnumerable<string>>> headers = null, bool useGZip = false)
        {
            string jsonString;
            var url = _baseUrl != null ? _baseUrl + partialUrl : partialUrl;
            WebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(url);
            req.Method = "GET";

            //client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
            if (useGZip)
            {
                req.Headers.Add("AcceptEncoding", "gzip");
            }

            SetHeadersWebRequest(headers, req);

            var jsonRequest = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(request);
            /*var content = new StringContent(jsonRequest, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
            var httpRequestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, partialUrl);
            httpRequestMessage.Content = content;*/
            var sendBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(jsonRequest);
            var requestStream = req.GetRequestStream();
            requestStream.Write(sendBytes, 0, sendBytes.Length);
            requestStream.Close();

            using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse) req.GetResponse())
            {


                if (response.Headers.GetValues("Content-Encoding").Any(x => x == "gzip"))
                {
                    using (Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream())
                    using (Stream decompressed = new GZipStream(stream, CompressionMode.Decompress))
                    using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(decompressed))
                    {
                        jsonString = reader.ReadToEnd();
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    using (var stream = response.GetResponseStream())
                    using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(stream))
                    {
                        jsonString = sr.ReadToEnd();
                    }
                }
            }
            return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<TResponse>(jsonString);
        }