This method may avoid the need to hard code or configure proxy credentials, which may be desirable. Put this in your application configuration file – probably app.config. Visual Studio will rename it to yourappname.exe.config on build, and it will end up next to your executable. If you don’t have an application configuration file, just add … Read more
First, adding an app.config file is just as easy as adding any other file, How to: Add an Application Configuration File to a C# Project Then you just have to add that code snippet above to that new app.config. Another way of setting that property via code, avoiding the need for an app.config is shown … Read more
Since no answers were posted, I found the following here: The Web server (running the Web site) thinks that the request submitted by the client (e.g. your Web browser or our CheckUpDown robot) can not be completed because it conflicts with some rule already established. For example, you may get a 409 error if you … Read more
The HttpWebRequest class has a property called ServicePoint which can be used to change this setting for a specific request. For example: var req = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(…); req.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = false;
I think you are a bit wrong on your understanding of it. If you go to www.google.com (not using any forms, just wanting the site), this is what happens: First the browser needs to translate www.google.com to an IP address if it does not already know it. If it knows it, nothing happens at this … Read more
First install “Microsoft ASP.NET Web API Client” nuget package: PM > Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client Then use the following function to post your data: public static async Task<TResult> PostFormUrlEncoded<TResult>(string url, IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, string>> postData) { using (var httpClient = new HttpClient()) { using (var content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(postData)) { content.Headers.Clear(); content.Headers.Add(“Content-Type”, “application/x-www-form-urlencoded”); HttpResponseMessage response = await httpClient.PostAsync(url, content); … Read more
I found the answer. You can change the code to: var request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(requestUri); request.AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.GZip | DecompressionMethods.Deflate; And you will have automatic decompression. No need to change the rest of the code.
Add ?var1=data1&var2=data2 to the end of url to submit values to the page via GET: using System.Net; using System.IO; string url = “https://www.example.com/scriptname.php?var1=hello”; HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url); HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse(); Stream resStream = response.GetResponseStream();
First, this is not an error. The 3xx denotes a redirection. The real errors are 4xx (client error) and 5xx (server error). If a client gets a 304 Not Modified, then it’s the client’s responsibility to display the resouce in question from its own cache. In general, the proxy shouldn’t worry about this. It’s just … Read more
Easy. In order to add a basic authentication to your HttpRequest you do this: string username = “Your username”; string password = “Your password”; string svcCredentials = Convert.ToBase64String(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(username + “:” + password)); request.Headers.Add(“Authorization”, “Basic ” + svcCredentials); In basic authentication you need to use Base64 to encode the credentials.