See HttpWebRequest as a string before GetResponse without using a violinist

Question

How can I see the HttpWebRequest object as a string before calling the GetResponse method? I want to see the raw request format something like in the fiddle:

Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------2600251021003 
Content-Length: 338 
-----------------------------2600251021003 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="UPLOAD_FILEName"; filename="Searchlight062210 w price.csv" Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel 
,,,,, 
-----------------------------2600251021003 
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="submit" 
submit 
-----------------------------2600251021003-- 

I tried the following code but did not work because the stream is not readable.

 string GetRequestString(HttpWebRequest req)
        {
            Stream stream2 = req.GetRequestStream(); 
            StreamReader reader2 = new StreamReader(stream2);
            return reader2.ReadToEnd();  

        }

Answer 1

If for logging purposes you can activate tracing by placing it in your /web.config application:

  <system.diagnostics>
    <sources>
      <source name="System.Net.Sockets" tracemode="protocolonly">
        <listeners>
          <add name="System.Net.Sockets" type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener" initializeData="network.log" />
        </listeners>
      </source>
    </sources>

    <switches>
      <add name="System.Net.Sockets" value="Verbose"/>
    </switches>

    <trace autoflush="true" />
  </system.diagnostics>

Run your code and look at the generated log file.