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Thanks Benjamin! That seemed to do the trick!   I really appreciate your help with this. ... View more

Benjamin, Thanks for the response. I tried    settings.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8;   however apparently .NET ignores is as it treats strings as UTF-16 soooo.....   I've done some more reading about the encoding and modified my code as seen below and I am now getting a different error (500 - Internal Server Error). The XML should now be encoded as UTF-8 at least.   /*** * Load into Constant Contact ***/ string APIKey = "[API KEY]"; string Username = "[USERNAME]"; string Password = "[PASSWORD]"; CredentialCache ccLoginCredentials = new CredentialCache(); ccLoginCredentials.Add(new Uri("https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/[USERNAME]"), "Basic", new NetworkCredential(APIKey + "%" + Username, Password)); WebRequest wRequest = WebRequest.Create("https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/" + Username + "/contacts"); wRequest.Method = "POST"; wRequest.ContentType = "application/atom+xml"; wRequest.Credentials = ccLoginCredentials; string XMLData; MemoryStream mStream = new MemoryStream(); using (XmlTextWriter xWriter = new XmlTextWriter(mStream, Encoding.UTF8)) { xWriter.Indentation = 4; xWriter.IndentChar = ' '; xWriter.Formatting = Formatting.Indented; xWriter.WriteStartDocument(); xWriter.WriteStartElement("entry", "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"); xWriter.WriteStartElement("title"); xWriter.WriteAttributeString("type", "text"); xWriter.WriteEndElement(); xWriter.WriteStartElement("updated"); xWriter.WriteString("2011-06-27T14:21:06.407Z"); xWriter.WriteEndElement(); xWriter.WriteStartElement("author"); xWriter.WriteEndElement(); xWriter.WriteStartElement("id"); xWriter.WriteString("https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/[USERNAME]/lists/[LIST ID]"); xWriter.WriteEndElement(); xWriter.WriteStartElement("summary"); xWriter.WriteAttributeString("type", "text"); xWriter.WriteString("Contact"); xWriter.WriteEndElement(); xWriter.WriteStartElement("content"); xWriter.WriteAttributeString("type", "application/vnd.ctct+xml"); xWriter.WriteStartElement("Contact", "https://ws.constantcontact.com/ns/1.0/"); xWriter.WriteStartElement("EmailAddress"); xWriter.WriteString("test@test.com"); xWriter.WriteEndElement(); xWriter.WriteStartElement("OptInSource"); xWriter.WriteString("ACTION_BY_CUSTOMER"); xWriter.WriteEndElement(); xWriter.WriteStartElement("ContactLists"); xWriter.WriteStartElement("ContactList"); xWriter.WriteAttributeString("id", "https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/[USERNAME]/lists/[LIST ID]"); xWriter.WriteEndElement(); xWriter.WriteEndElement(); xWriter.WriteEndElement(); xWriter.WriteEndElement(); xWriter.WriteEndElement(); xWriter.WriteEndDocument(); xWriter.Flush(); StreamReader bReader = new StreamReader(mStream, Encoding.UTF8, true); mStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin); XMLData = bReader.ReadToEnd(); } //Response.Write(XMLData); byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(XMLData); try { wRequest.ContentLength = byteArray.Length; Stream streamRequest = wRequest.GetRequestStream(); streamRequest.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length); streamRequest.Close(); HttpWebResponse wResponse = (HttpWebResponse)wRequest.GetResponse(); StreamReader sReader = new StreamReader(wResponse.GetResponseStream()); string xResponse = sReader.ReadToEnd(); Response.Write(xResponse); } catch (WebException ex) { Response.Write("WebException: " + ex.Status + " With response: " + ex.Message); } catch (XmlException xmlex) { Response.Write(xmlex.Message); } catch (Exception ex) { Response.Write(ex.Message); }   Basically rather than using a StringBuilder I opted to try a MemoryStream object which allowed me to get the desired encoding (UTF-8). Below is my XML request...   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <title type="text" /> <updated>2011-06-27T14:21:06.407Z</updated> <author /> <id>https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/[USERNAME]/lists/[LIST ID]</id> <summary type="text">Contact</summary> <content type="application/vnd.ctct+xml"> <Contact xmlns="https://ws.constantcontact.com/ns/1.0/"> <EmailAddress>test@test.com</EmailAddress> <OptInSource>ACTION_BY_CUSTOMER</OptInSource> <ContactLists> <ContactList id="https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/[USERNAME]/lists/[LIST ID]" /> </ContactLists> </Contact> </content> </entry>   Any ideas why I would be getting a 500 error now?   Again, thanks so much for assisting. ... View more