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using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Text;

using System.Net;

using System.IO;

using System.Web;

class Simple_REST

{

    public static string Get_URI(string uri)

    {

        HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);

        HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

        Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();

        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream);

        string responseString = reader.ReadToEnd();

        reader.Close();

        responseStream.Close();

        response.Close();

        return responseString;

    }

    public static string Post_URI(string uri, Dictionary<string, string> postDataDictionary)

    {

        string postData = "";

        foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> kvp in postDataDictionary)

        {

            postData += string.Format("{0}={1}&", HttpUtility.UrlEncode(kvp.Key), HttpUtility.UrlEncode(kvp.Value));

        }

        postData = postData.Remove(postData.Length - 1); // remove the trailing ampersand

        HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);

        req.Method = "POST";

        byte[] postArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);

        req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

        req.ContentLength = postArray.Length;

        Stream dataStream = req.GetRequestStream();

        dataStream.Write(postArray, 0, postArray.Length);

        dataStream.Close();

        HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

        Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();

        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream);

        string responseString = reader.ReadToEnd();

        reader.Close();

        responseStream.Close();

        response.Close();

        return responseString;

    }

}