// Create a new 'HttpWebRequest' object to the mentioned Uri.				
HttpWebRequest myHttpWebRequest=(HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://www.contoso.com/codesnippets/next.asp");
// Set AllowWriteStreamBuffering to 'false'. 
myHttpWebRequest.AllowWriteStreamBuffering=false;
Console.WriteLine("\nPlease Enter the data to be posted to the (http://www.contoso.com/codesnippets/next.asp) uri:");
string inputData =Console.ReadLine();
string postData="firstone="+inputData;
// Set 'Method' property of 'HttpWebRequest' class to POST.
myHttpWebRequest.Method="POST";
ASCIIEncoding encodedData=new ASCIIEncoding();
byte[]  byteArray=encodedData.GetBytes(postData);
// Set 'ContentType' property of the 'HttpWebRequest' class to "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".
myHttpWebRequest.ContentType="application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
// If the AllowWriteStreamBuffering property of HttpWebRequest is set to false,the contentlength has to be set to length of data to be posted else Exception(411) is raised.
myHttpWebRequest.ContentLength=byteArray.Length;
Stream newStream=myHttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream();
newStream.Write(byteArray,0,byteArray.Length);
newStream.Close();
Console.WriteLine("\nData has been posted to the Uri\n\nPlease wait for the response..........");
// Assign the response object of 'HttpWebRequest' to a 'HttpWebResponse' variable.
HttpWebResponse myHttpWebResponse=(HttpWebResponse)myHttpWebRequest.GetResponse();