As described above I am using a Backgroundworker, which is requesting data from NET. This request is done asynchronously (BeginGetResponse). When a response arrives a method is called to handle the recived data etc... How could I synchronize the background worker and the asynchronous HttpWebRequest? Is it stupid to use an asynchronous h...
Surely, surely, surely there is a way to configure the .Net HttpWebRequest object so that it does not raise an exception when HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() is called and any 300 or 400 status codes are returned? Jon Skeet does not think so, so I almost dare not even ask, but I find it hard to believe there is no way around this. 300 and ...
I'm looking for a way to work with an API which requires login, and then redirects to another URL. The thing is that so far I've only come up with a way to make 2 Http Requests for each action I want to do: first, get cookie with AllowRedirect=false, then get the actual URI and do a second request with the cookie: HttpWebRequest request...
I have a Sinatra app that basically takes some input values and then finds data matching those values from external services like Flickr, Twitter, etc. For example: input:"Chattanooga Choo Choo" Would go out and find images at Flickr on the Chattanooga Choo Choo and tweets from Twitter, etc. Right now I have something like: @images =...
I'm working on a messy PHP page by another developer and I was analyzing the resource view in the Webkit developer tools and noticed that the page (index.php) makes an HTTP requests for itself and then interprets the results as an image despite it being sent with the text/html header. Because of this it throws the warning: Resource i...
string url = "http://foo.com/bar?id=" + id + "&more=" + more; HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url); HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse(); I m trying make a call to another server, and getting back the following: |FATAL|The remote server returned an error: (406) Not A...
Hi, I want to use ASP for code generation in a C# desktop application. To achieve this, I set up a simple host (derived from System.MarshalByRefObject) that processes a System.Web.Hosting.SimpleWorkerRequest via HttpRuntime.ProcessRequest. This processes the ASPX script specified by the incoming request (using System.Net.HttpListener t...
I m trying to invoke a URL in C#, I am just interested in invoking, and dont care about response. When i have the following, does it mean that I m invoking the URL? HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url); ...
I have a website (python/django) that needs to use a load of Java resources that may or may not be on the same server. Therefore I am writing a mini webserver in Java that will receive a request and then when processing is finished, POST some data back to a url on the site. I have got the java code receiving connections on sockets and r...
Hi, I am building a web scraping application. It should scrape a complex web site with concurrent HttpWebRequests from a single host to a single target web server. The application should run on Windows server 2008. One single HttpWebRequest for data could take from 1 minute to 4 minutes to complete (because of long running db operatio...
Hi, How can I use the returned XML from the reader in a xmltextreader? ' Create the web request request = DirectCast(WebRequest.Create("https://mobilevikings.com/api/1.0/rest/mobilevikings/sim_balance.xml"), HttpWebRequest) ' Add authentication to request request.Credentials = New NetworkCredent...
What my cause a normal external script on my app to show up sometimes in Firebug's NET panel as 'Aborted' and not being loaded? Is this a server issue, or the browser going nuts? ...
I am currently trying to port a .Net app to Objective C and Cocoa. I know the basics and have had little trouble with most things. But I'm having trouble retrieving data from the Web. In C# I would use POST and GET to retrieve information from a server as such byte[] buffer = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("someData"); HttpWebRequest request...
Currently I have multi-threaded downloader class that uses HttpWebRequest/Response. All works fine, it's super fast, BUT.. the problem is that the data needs to be streamed while it's downloading to another app. That means that it must be streamed in the right order, the first chunk first, and then the next in the queue. Currently my dow...
Our company works with another company called iMatrix and they have an API for creating our own forms. They have confirmed that our request is hitting their servers but a response is supposed to come back in 1 of a few ways determined by a parameter. I'm getting a 200 OK response back but no content and a content-length of 0 in the respo...
Hi, guys, first of all thanks for your contributions, I've found great responses here. Yet I've ran into a problem I can't figure out and if someone could provide any help, it would be greatly appreciated. I'm developing this application in C# that could upload an image from computer to user photoblog. For this I'm usig pixelpost pla...
I want to log in into a website using C# code. Here's the html code of the example form: <form action="http://www.site.com/login.php" method="post" name="login" id="login"> <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr><td><b>User:</b></td><td colspan=\"2\"><b>Password:</b></td></tr> <tr> <td><input class="inputbg" nam...
In this answer, I described how I resorted to wrappnig a GZipStream around the response stream in a HttpWebResponse, in order to decompress it. The relevant code looks like this: HttpWebRequest hwr = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(url); hwr.CookieContainer = PersistentCookies.GetCookieContainerForUrl(url); hwr.Accept = "text/...
Hi, I am using an SMS Gateway to make my application receive SMSs. For this, the SMS Gateway sends a request to one of the pages in my application with the message as a querystring parameter. eg. http://myapplication/SMSReceiver.aspx?Message=PaulaIsHome. Now after my page gets invoked, I need to send an OK response to the SMS Gateway s...
Since Http Headers can be crafted and customize, how would I change or modify the IP part of it using C# 's HttpWebRequest class. In other words, how can IP Spoofing be done using C#. Thanks for reading. ...