Reading Remote File [C #]
I am trying to read a remote file using HttpWebRequest in a C # console application. But for some reason the request is empty - it never finds the url.
This is my code:
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create("http://uo.neverlandsreborn.org:8000/botticus/status.ecl");
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
Why is it impossible?
The file contains only a line. Nothing more!
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How do you read the response data? Does it return as successful but empty, or is there an error status?
If that doesn't work, try Wireshark , which will let you see what's going on at the network level.
Also, consider using WebClient
instead WebRequest
- it makes it incredibly easy when you don't have to do anything fancy:
string url = "http://uo.neverlandsreborn.org:8000/botticus/status.ecl";
WebClient wc = new WebClient();
string data = wc.DownloadString(url);
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You should receive a stream of responses and read data from that. Here's a function I wrote for one project that does exactly that:
private static string GetUrl(string url)
{
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.CreateDefault(new Uri(url));
using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
{
if (response.StatusCode != HttpStatusCode.OK)
throw new ServerException("Server returned an error code (" + ((int)response.StatusCode).ToString() +
") while trying to retrieve a new key: " + response.StatusDescription);
using (var sr = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
{
return sr.ReadToEnd();
}
}
}
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