HttpRequest.HttpMethod Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Web

Assembly:

System.Web.dll

Gets the HTTP data transfer method (such as GET, POST, or HEAD) used by the client.

C#

public string HttpMethod { get; }

Property Value

String

The HTTP data transfer method used by the client.

Examples

The following code example uses the HtmlEncode method to HTML-encode the value of the HttpMethod property and the WriteLine method to write the encoded value to the file. This code example is part of a larger example provided for the HttpRequest class.

C#

// Write request information to the file with HTML encoding.
sw.WriteLine(Server.HtmlEncode(Request.RequestType));
sw.WriteLine(Server.HtmlEncode(Request.UserHostAddress));
sw.WriteLine(Server.HtmlEncode(Request.UserHostName));
sw.WriteLine(Server.HtmlEncode(Request.HttpMethod));

The following example shows output that is produced by this code.

GET

127.0.0.1

127.0.0.1

GET

Applies to