webclient

C# Console App Terminating Before ASync Call Completion

I'm currently writing a C# console app that generates a number of urls that point to different images on a web site and then downloads those URLs as byte streams using WebClient.DownloadDataAsync. My issue is that once the first asynchronous call is made, the console app considers the program to be completed and terminates before the as...

Is Webclient's IWebProxy thread-safe?

When using WebClient to download data there seems to be some minor but perceivable delay incurred each time from resolving the proxy. Since I need to call the methods using the webclient multiple times in different threads and webclient itself isn't thread safe I was thinking of instead just creating a new webclient each time and settin...

Why would WebClient.OpenReadAsync return a e.Result of zero length if download is successful?

Using the following code (from a Silverlight 4 OOB app) I'm getting a result stream with a size of zero even though it takes the time to download the whole file (900+MB) and no error is reported. Fiddler also says the whole file was downloaded. The handler on progress changed (although not shown below) is hit and reports an increase in ...

Axis2 problem reading response

Hi, I have setup Axis2 with Spring Framework integration. I followed Axis2 example from their website. I'm also using Eclipse to debug the web service and client. Using Eclipse, I see that the web service is getting called because of the break point. The parameter is also being passed. Problem is when the web service returns the resp...

how to run Web client software factory i face to face :"Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: '/' matched to the path."?

/ WebClientApplication1' Application Server Error. '/' Matched to the path. Description: An unhandled exception occurred in the execution of the current web request. About the error and where it originated in the code review the stack trace for more information. Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: '/' matched to the pat...

How to use Fiddler to debug traffic from Any app (eg. C#/WPF app)

I am tring to debug whats wrong with my HTTP requests from another question here on SO. So i read abit about Fiddler and wanted to use it to debug my problem. But I cant seem to get traffic from my WPF application to go through Fiddler. I believe I need to configure a proxy. I am using a WebClient for a basic example, but I think i will ...

what permission is need on folder when you use System.Net.WebClient for DOWNLOAD? C#

hi there, I try to download a file from a website. I do have access from browser and I don't get error by reading I think. The error is that the TO folder is "access denied." I JUST WANT TO COPY THE FILE from REMOTE website TO our LOCAL Folder... This is Windows Service project... NOT Winforms or NOT ASPWEB project.. string from = "h...

C#: POST request with BASIC authentication mixes QUERY_STRING and REQUEST_METHOD in PHP?

Hi, I have a problem with sending a POST request from C# to a PHP script on my Apache (Windows) server. Everything works fine, unless I instruct Apache to require a valid user using BASIC authentication through a .htaccess file. But let's put things in order. I'm using the following code to send a list of key/value pairs to my PHP scri...

How to avoid application crashing when download file using WebClient();

I'm using C# WebClient(); to download a file from a server. The problem is when I don't have internet or the server is not responsive, my application crashes trying to download this file. What is the best practice to avoid crashing, to abort and give a notification that connection with a server failed? ...

Get HTTP headers in asynchronous WebClient request.

I'm using System.Net.WebClient to perform some HTTP operations in asynchronous mode. The reason to use asynchronous operations is, above anything else, the fact that I get progress change indications - which is only available for async operations, as stated by the docs. So let's say I have my WebClient set up: this.client = new WebClie...

Downloading a Cab file using WebClient gives too few bytes

I need to download a Cab file from a Url into a stream. using (WebClient client = new WebClient()) { client.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials; byte[] fileContents = client.DownloadData("http://localhost/sites/hfsc/FormServerTemplates/HfscInspectionForm.xsn"); using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(fileConte...

Pause Download & Resume (Merge The Existing File)

I'm making a downloader using C#, i want to add a feature of Pause & Resume download, i googled & implemented the suggestions but it didn't work for me meaning it started the download from the correct position but its not merging the existing file correctly, i tested it by downloading a video file but after pausing the download & startin...

POST'ing arrays in WebClient (C#/.net)

Hi guys, I've got a .net application that has a WebRequest that to a POST adds multiple times the same key, thus making it an array in the eyes of PHP, Java Servlets etc. I wanted to rewrite this to using WebClient, but if I call WebClient's QueryString.Add() with the same key multiple times, it just appends the new values, making a com...

Missing features in HttpWebRequest and WebClient?

What features do you want to see in System.Net.HttpWebRequest and System.Net.WebClient that are not included out of the box? What cannot or cannot be easily achieved with those classes? I'd like to be able to: Use bandwidth throttling when downloading (useful for large files). Upload multiple files and key-value pairs via HTTP post ...

C# WebClient UploadFile giving me a PathTooLongException (its not too long!)

Hey. Doing a file upload to an aspx page from C#. Getting a: PathTooLongException The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters. Here's the code: try { using (var clie...

Silverlight Requests, Failures & Fiddler

I've got a Silverlight application that makes a cross-domain request. The clientaccesspolicy.xml file exists on the server I am making a request to and is correctly configured. I know that it is correctly configured because when I use the application to make a request from my machine I receive a response with no problem. When a second...

vb.net WebClient.DownloadString fails to retrieve html

Can anyone help explain why the code below fails to retrieve the html Dim WebReqeust As WebClient = New WebClient Dim URL as string = "http://www.professionalorganizervannuys.com" Dim WebPage As String = WebReqeust.DownloadString(URL) It fails on this particular URL. Thanks in advance. ...

qtbrowserplugin vs flash/silverlight ?

Our team is looking for alternative to ActiveX for our browser based client. So far flash, silverlight, HTML5 are being considered. Since I have some prior experience of Qt I am thinking of suggesting Qt. From documentation it seems QtBrowserPlugin is req for our purposes. There are three criteria that any alternative must satisfy Mu...

How communication happens between webserver and webclient?

I had posted one question here I solved the problem but little confuse about reason. Question was webBrowser control in .net was not displaying images. Moreover, If I press Ctrl+N, it opens same page in external IE browser. all images are displyed properly there. Once I do this step and then after, when webBrowser Control refresh page a...

Tab View for web pages

I'm a beginning Android dev and have made a small working app that displays a web page and then has a menu to switch to about 4 other web pages. I've just completed the Tab View tutorial and have that working but I would like to display a web page for each tab that is clicked. I'm trying to merge my two successes but am having no luck....