httpwebrequest

HTTP Requests (POST) doesn't works correctly in a DLL Library?

I'm trying to use TweetSharp in a DLL Library. When I execute the following code in a DLL Library, the response returns invalid (417 Unknown): var verify = FluentTwitter.CreateRequest() .AuthenticateWith("<HIDDEN>", "<HIDDEN>", "<HIDDEN>", "<HIDDEN>") .Statuses().Update("It works!"); var response = veri...

How to parse the IIS response header "Date" in .NET

Hello, I'm performing an HttpWebRequest against an IIS server. One of the response headers is Date, which I'd like to parse. This is its value: "Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:16:13 GMT" How do I parase this string? DateTime.Parse didn't quite work out well for me. Thanks! ...

Using the "Service Account" certificate store with .NET 2.0 HttpWebRequest

I have a .net 2.0 windows service application written in C# that access a non-soap web service via SSL with HttpWebRequest. My windows service runs under the NETWORK SERVICE account. I am able to make SSL work by issuing a cert to the web server that my windows service talks to from a CA, then installing the CA's cert to the Local Mach...

partial page source from httpwebresponse

I am very new to this so please pardon any ignorance. I have created my first multi-threaded application and it's purpose is to make numerous webrequests, parse each page source, and store the results in tables for further interrogation. Theoretically there could be as many as 30-40000 requests, therefore the need to multi-thread. Each...

HTTP Request performance for large volumes of requests

I'm looking for some advice on how to optimise the following process: App reads csv file. For each line in the file an XML message is created Each XML message is posted to a URL via a HTTPWebRequest This process was designed to handle low volumes of messages (up to about 200 at a time), un suprisingly thinks have changed and it is now ...

XmlReader is {None} on web service call (.Net C#)

I have a method which creates HttpWebRequest for a given url and returns XmlReader object with the response stream. HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(url); req.Accept = "*/*"; req.Headers.Add("UA-CPU", "x86"); req.UserAgent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; MS-RTC LM 8)"; Ht...

Response.GetResponseStream() escapes double quotes

Response.GetResponseStream() is returning xml with escape characters <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?> Because of this XmlReader return {None}. Help please? HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(url); req.Accept = "*/*"; req.Headers.Add("UA-CPU", "x86"); req.UserAgent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0;...

There is any Macro Recorder for Web Page fetching automation?

Selenium HQ records some web navigation and can replay it from Firefox. I want a similar thing, but it must have an API. ** UPDATE ** It turns out that Selenium has an API, but I will keep the question since there are alternatives. My objective is to fetch a web page periodically and save its contents to a database. The web content is...

HttpWebRequest POST and Cookies

Hi am trying to make an application that post data to a joomla login page but the only thing i get back is cookies is not enabled. Function GetPage(ByVal Url As String) As String Dim CookieJar As New Net.CookieContainer Dim enc As Encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252) Dim Data As Byte() = Nothing Dim PostData As String ...

HttpWebRequest long URI workaround?

I've encountered an issue with HttpWebRequest that if the URI is over 2048 characters long the request fails and returns a 404 error even though the server is perfectly capable of servicing a request with a URI that long. I know this since the same URI that causes an error if submitted via HttpWebRequest works fine when pasted directly ...

sending Http request error (Http 503) in C#

Hello everyone, I am using VSTS 2008 + C# + .Net 3.5 to develop a console application and I send request to another server (IIS 7.0 on Windows Server 2008). I find when the # of request threads are big, the IIS 7.0 will response with http 503 error. Any ideas what is wrong and how to tune to make IIS 7.0 serve more requests? Here is my...

URL parsing in ASP.NET

I'm trying to parse a URL, but I'm having problems: http://www.meteor.gov.tr/deniz/deniz-suyu-sicakligi.aspx When I call HttpWebRequest it throws a exception: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: Eine vorhandene Verbindung wurde vom Remotehost geschlossen In english: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: a existing con...

Http request timeout issue

Hello everyone, I am using VSTS 2008 + C# + .Net 3.5 to develop a console application and I send request to another server (IIS 7.0 on Windows Server 2008). Here is my code. My question is, as in my code, I use a while loop to read chunks by chunk from server. The timeout request.Timeout = Timeout * 1000 is responsible for (1) timeout f...

"Unable to connect to remote server fail" in HttpWebRequest

Hello everyone, I am using VSTS 2008 + C# + .Net 3.5 to develop a console application and I send request to another server (IIS 7.0 on Windows Server 2008). I find when the # of request threads are big (e.g. 2000 threads), the client will receive error "Unable to connect to remote server fail" when invoking response = (HttpWebResponse)r...

multiple webrequests asynchronously in asp.net?

I have a page that needs to combine data from four different webrequests into a single list of items. Currently, I'm running these sequentially, appending to a single list, then binding that list to my repeater. However, I would like to be able to call these four webrequests asynchronously so that they can run simultaneously and save lo...

ASP.NET The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relat

When attempting to use HttpWebRequest to retrieve a page from my dev server, I get a web exception: The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel." The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure... The url I'm attempting to read from is a plain-old h...

Does HttpResponse work in a "using" block with out a explicit response.close()

Hi all, I was trying to get clarification on this : Method-1: Dim request = CreateRequest(uri) //some uri Dim response = DirectCast(request.GetResponse, HttpWebResponse) response.Close() Method-2: Dim request = Createrequest(uri) Using response = DirectCast(request.GetResponse, HttpWebResponse) End Using When I used both Method-1...

WebRequest C# 403 Error

Okay so here's what I'm doing. I'm making a request to a server to pull down a file. I do this by making a WebRequest to the website the getting the response just as you usually would, although i get a 403 error saying i don't have permissions. Problem is when i plug the URL into Google Chrome I get redirected and the file i requested c...

Replacing whole HTML content kills HEAD and BODY tags after HTTP Request!

After pressing a button, I'm sending the whole HTML content from a webpage (the part within the <html> tags) to a CGI script which manipulates the content and sends it back. Now I'm trying to replace the existing content with the new one. Unfortunately after assignment, every single <head> or <body> tag (as well as the closing ones) wi...

Launch browser from c# and fill in username and password

I was wondering if anyone knows how to launch a normal browser session and enter username and password details from c# code - perhaps using a webrequest? nb the username and password is the popup screen not an embedded username and password tag. ...