Had a problem with the webclient class - timeout.

So i have switched to the httpWebRequest. Followed all guides on internet and have tried sending bytes and text but whenever I send an SQL statement the spaces get stripped out??

code:

       Dim encoding As New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding
       Dim postData As New System.Text.StringBuilder
       Dim tempStr As String
       
           With postData 'value pairs
               .Append("REQUEST=")
               .Append("NoReturn")
               .Append("&SQL=")
               .Append(SQLUploadStr)
           End With
           tempStr = postData.ToString
'tempStr would be - "REQUEST=NoReturn&SQL=insert into resources(resname,resdata) Values('DDL_Location','brighton
')"
           'Dim data As Byte() = encoding.GetBytes(tempStr)

           Dim request As System.Net.HttpWebRequest = CType(WebRequest.Create(courseURL), HttpWebRequest)
           With request
               '.Create(courseURL)
               .Method = "POST"
               .ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
               '.ContentLength = tempStr.Length
               .AllowWriteStreamBuffering = True
           End With

           Dim reqStream As System.IO.Stream = request.GetRequestStream
           'sw.Write(data, 0, data.Length)
           'sw.Close()
           Dim wrTr As System.IO.StreamWriter = New StreamWriter(reqStream)
           wrTr.WriteLine(tempStr)
           wrTr.Close()

           Dim response As System.Net.HttpWebResponse = request.GetResponse
           Dim sr As New System.IO.StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream)
           Dim result As String = sr.ReadToEnd
           sr.Close()

Error - Result returns :

"ERROR: Could not execute SQL statement. (Invalid SQL statement; expected 'DELETE', 'INSERT', 'PROCEDURE', 'SELECT', or 'UPDATE'. insertintoresources(resname,resdata)Values('DDL_Location','brighton'))"

as you can see the sql statement gets squeezed up.

Can any one help me please!!