API Call with C#

index.aspx.cs

/// <summary>
/// Execute a PULL or GET ApiCall
/// </summary>
/// <param name="url">The full URL including the querystring parameters</param>
/// <param name="type">PULL or GET</param>
/// <param name="cookies">A CookieContainer that can be used to string </param>
/// <returns>Resturns a string of the response from the API call.</returns>
protected string APICall(string url, string type, CookieContainer cookies) {

    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
    request.CookieContainer = cookies;
    request.Method = type;

    HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
    String responseString;

    using (Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream()) {
        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream, Encoding.UTF8);
        responseString = reader.ReadToEnd();
    }

    return responseString;

}

useage.cs

// create new container to be passed from request to request:
CookieContainer cookie = new CookieContainer();

// log into OU Campus:
string response1 = APICall("https://a.cms.omniupdate.com/authentication/login?skin=oucampus&account=UNCO&username=USERNAME&password=PASSWORD", "POST", cookie);

// get results from form with id 104148:
string response2 = APICall("https://a.cms.omniupdate.com/assets/form_results?site=www&asset=104148", "GET", cookie);