How do I get the raw request body from the Request.Content object using .net 4 api endpoint

In your comment on @Kenneth’s answer you’re saying that ReadAsStringAsync() is returning empty string.

That’s because you (or something – like model binder) already read the content, so position of internal stream in Request.Content is on the end.

What you can do is this:

public static string GetRequestBody()
{
    var bodyStream = new StreamReader(HttpContext.Current.Request.InputStream);
    bodyStream.BaseStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
    var bodyText = bodyStream.ReadToEnd();
    return bodyText;
}