curl Request with ASP.NET - asp.net

Question

I have read some other posts on Stack but I can't get this to work. It works fine on my when I run the curl command in git on my windows machine but when I convert it to asp.net it's not working:
private void BeeBoleRequest()
{
string url = "https://mycompany.beebole-apps.com/api";
WebRequest myReq = WebRequest.Create(url);
string username = "e26f3a722f46996d77dd78c5dbe82f15298a6385";
string password = "x";
string usernamePassword = username + ":" + password;
CredentialCache mycache = new CredentialCache();
mycache.Add(new Uri(url), "Basic", new NetworkCredential(username, password));
myReq.Credentials = mycache;
myReq.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(new ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(usernamePassword)));
WebResponse wr = myReq.GetResponse();
Stream receiveStream = wr.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(receiveStream, Encoding.UTF8);
string content = reader.ReadToEnd();
Response.Write(content);
}
This is the BeeBole API. Its pretty straight fwd. http://beebole.com/api but I am getting a following 500 error when I run the above:
The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.

Answer 1

The default HTTP method for WebRequest is GET. Try setting it to POST, as that's what the API is expecting
myReq.Method = "POST";
I assume you are posting something. As a test, I'm going to post the same data from their curl example.
string url = "https://YOUR_COMPANY_HERE.beebole-apps.com/api";
string data = "{\"service\":\"absence.list\", \"company_id\":3}";
WebRequest myReq = WebRequest.Create(url);
myReq.Method = "POST";
myReq.ContentLength = data.Length;
myReq.ContentType = "application/json; charset=UTF-8";
string usernamePassword = "YOUR API TOKEN HERE" + ":" + "x";
UTF8Encoding enc = new UTF8Encoding();
myReq.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(enc.GetBytes(usernamePassword)));
using (Stream ds = myReq.GetRequestStream())
{
ds.Write(enc.GetBytes(data), 0, data.Length);
}
WebResponse wr = myReq.GetResponse();
Stream receiveStream = wr.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(receiveStream, Encoding.UTF8);
string content = reader.ReadToEnd();
Response.Write(content);