webrequest

Trying to call a WCF service with a WebRequest

I have a WCF service that needs to be called by a 3rd party app, posting some raw XML. I am trying to test my service by constructing a simple WebRequest and making the request to the service. Here's my service code: Interface: [ServiceContract(Namespace = "http://test.mydomain.com")] public interface ITest { [WebInvoke(UriTe...

REST on *just* IIS7 (without a web framework)

Hi, I want to upload files directly to IIS7 (in this case I am using the WebRequest object in .NET). Thus I need IIS7 to accept POST, PUT, and DELETE verbs such that I can upload and delete files on the server directly. Is it possible to have IIS accept files without a a web framework like ASP.NET? Essentially I want to be able to use I...

OpenNETCF.Net.WebRequestMethods.Ftp.DownloadFile is giving value not within the range exception in compact frame work

i am using OpenNETCF.Net.WebRequestMethods.Ftp.DownloadFile for WebRequest in Compact framework.. it is showing "value is not within the range" error. ...

Http web request doesn't maintaining session.

Hello, I have program where i want to scrap some Useful study material for me. This site maintaining session key and some other key also. If I trying to go nested page then it will throw me out and show session out message. I unable to maintain session key in web request class. so please give me some idea that how can i maintain session...

HttpWebRequest to different IP than the domain resolves to

Hey, Long story short an API I'm calling's different environments (dev/staging/uat/live) is set up by putting a host-record on the server so the live domain resolves to their other server in for the HTTP request. The problem is that they've done this with so many different environments that we don't have enough servers to use the serve...

Login Website, curious Cookie Problem

Hello, Language: C# Development Environment: Visual Studio 2008 Sorry if the english is not perfect. I want to login to a Website and get some Data from there. My Problem is that the Cookies does not work. Everytime the Website says that I should activate Cookies but i activated the Cookies trough a Cookiecontainer. I sniffed the tr...

Open protected web page passing in credentials programmatically

I have code examples from some of my previous work that help me to post form values to a web page (login credentials) and retrieve the text from that page. Now I want to pass in form values (login credentials again) but actually open that web page in a browser given those credentials. How do I do that? I'm not doing anything nefarious...

WebRequest.Create problem

My requirement is downlaoding a HTTM page. Like and I am using WebRequest.Create. But the line HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create("http://www.mayosoftware.com"); Is throwing an exception {"Configuration system failed to initialize"}. I am working in a compmany. Does it due to proxy or anything? But it’s occu...

Why PreAuthenticate is not enabled by default?

As far as I understand WebRequest.PreAuthenticate is almost always good. If I enable it even when there is no credential it won't try to authenticate, if there is a credential it'll. So is there any legitimate reason to set it False? Or is it OK to set it True even when there is no credentials? And since it's quite useful why it's no...

Rx: Piecing together multiple IObservable web requests

Hello, I'm creating multiple asynchronous web requests using IObservables and reactive extensions. So this creates observable for "GET" web request: var tweetObservalue = from request in WebRequestExtensions.CreateWebRequest(outUrl + querystring, method) from response in request.GetResponseAsync()...

IHttpAsyncHandler and IObservable web requests

Within Async handler I'm creating an IObservable from webrequest which returns a redirect string. I'm subscribing to that observable and calling AsyncResult.CompleteCall() but I'm forced to use Thread.Sleep(100) in order to get it executed. And it doesn't work every time. I'm pretty sure this is not correct. Could you please shine some ...

Accessing the buffered request body in HttpWebRequest?

By default HttpWebRequest has AllowWriteStreamBuffering set to true, which means that all data written to the request stream is buffered inside the object. I'd like to access this buffer of data after it has been written, but can't seem to find any way to do so. I'm happy for it to fail if AllowWriteStreamBuffering is false. Is there a...

Throwing an exception from a BackgroundWorker which calls an async. method (Webrequest)

Hi, My main application creates a new BackgroundWorker X the DoWork event handler of X calls a method Y of my controller. This method creates the WebRequest (async.) instance and the callback using AsyncCallback. When the response arrives the callback method Z gets called and the content will be analyzed. It can happen that the respons...

clear cookie container in WebRequest

I'm using the WebRequest object to post data to a login page, then post data to a seperate page on the same site. I am instantiating a CookieContainer and assigning it to the WebRequest object so that the cookies are handled. The problem is that I do not want to retain the cookie after I post data to the other page. How can I delete t...

How to get status code of a POST with Asp.Net HttpWebRequest

I'm trying to ping Google when my web site's sitemap is updated but I need to know which status code does Google or any other service returns. My code is below: HttpWebRequest rqst = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://search.yahooapis.com/ping?sitemap=http%3a%2f%2fhasangursoy.com.tr%2fsitemap.xml"); rqst.Method = "POST"; rqst.Con...

No Cookies at second Webrequest

Hello, I write a little Tool in C# with Visual Studio 2008. My Problem: I login to a website by HTTP-webrequest, I get an authentification cookie, thats all ok. Than I make a new HTTP-webrequest and add the cookies from the first request to call the next page where i can see my personal data. I see that the cookies will associated wi...

Get website's server from IP address

I have a function that returns a website's server when you enter the url for the site: private string GetWebServer() { string server = string.Empty; //get URL string url = txtURL.Text.Trim().ToLower(); if (!url.StartsWith("http://") && !url.StartsWith("https://")) url = "http://" + url; HttpWebRequest reque...

Why does sending post data with WebRequest take so long?

I am currently creating a C# application to tie into a php / MySQL online system. The application needs to send post data to scripts and get the response. When I send the following data username=test<-- Getting the response at 22/04/2010 12:15:49 Getting response 00:00:00.0360036 Finished response 00:00:00.0360036 Entire call t...

Using returned XML from an authorised HTTP request in vb.NET

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...

Forcing Basic Authentication in WebRequest

I am integrating web service that will use an HTTP-POST to request and retrieve data. The remote server requires basic authentication as per RFC 2617 My attempts to authenticate are failing. It fails in that, even though I attach a 'NetworkCredential' object to the 'Credentials' property of a 'HttpWebRequest' object, no authenticatio...