webclient response

Question

Hello,
Using:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.webclient.uploadvalues?view=net-6.0

UpClient.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8
Dim MyResponse As Byte() = UpClient.UploadValues("http://www.domain.com/form.php", FormFields)
MsgBox(Encoding.ASCII.GetString(MyResponse))

I always get an empty string, am I doing it wrong or it's normal and I should disregard the return value of UploadValues?

Also as I set the webclient's encoding to UTF8 (for non ascii chars in form fields) should I check the server response:
Encoding.ASCII.GetString(MyResponse)
or
Encoding.UTF8.GetString(MyResponse)

Thanks all

Answer 1

Hi @OSVBNET ,
WebClient.UploadValues Method returns a Byte array containing the body of the response from the resource, so it dependes on if http://www.domain.com/form.php provide the return value and what encoding it returns.