The idiomatic usage of EnsureSuccessStatusCode is to concisely verify success of a request, when you don’t want to handle failure cases in any specific way. This is especially useful when you want to quickly prototype a client. When you decide you want to handle failure cases in a specific way, do not do the following. … Read more
I did not understand from your question if you don’t have access to the app.config file because of your own design implementation or you just weren’t able to save the config file, so here is a piece of code that allows you to modify and save appSettings section in the config file at runtime: Configuration … Read more
I finally dug up the obscure command from MSDN that fixes this: ServicePointManager.DnsRefreshTimeout = 0; As I unwound all the weird things I’d tried previously, I discovered one other setting that I need along with the one above; on the request object, turn off keep-alive: request.KeepAlive = false;
::1 is the loopback address in IPv6. Think of it as the IPv6 version of 127.0.0.1. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost
The page you’re trying to download as a string is encoded using charset=EUC-JP, also known as Japanese (EUC) (CodePage 51932). This is clearly set in the page headers. Why is the string returned by WebClient.DownloadString encoded using the wrong encoder? The MSDN Docs state this: This method retrieves the specified resource. After it downloads the … Read more
Using .NET 4.5 (or .NET 4.0 by adding the Microsoft.Net.Http package from NuGet) there is an easier way to simulate form requests. Here is an example: private async Task<System.IO.Stream> Upload(string actionUrl, string paramString, Stream paramFileStream, byte [] paramFileBytes) { HttpContent stringContent = new StringContent(paramString); HttpContent fileStreamContent = new StreamContent(paramFileStream); HttpContent bytesContent = new ByteArrayContent(paramFileBytes); using … Read more