HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() keeps getting timed out

Question

i wrote a simple C# function to retrieve trade history from MtGox with following API call:

https://data.mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/trades?since=
         


        

Answer 1

I just had similar troubles calling a REST Service on a LINUX Server thru ssl. After trying many different configuration scenarios I found out that I had to send a UserAgent in the http head.

Here is my final method for calling the REST API.

        private static string RunWebRequest(string url, string json)
    {
        HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);

        // Header
        request.ContentType = "application/json";
        request.Method = "POST";
        request.AllowAutoRedirect = false;
        request.KeepAlive = false;
        request.Timeout = 30000;
        request.ReadWriteTimeout = 30000;
        request.UserAgent = "test.net";
        request.Accept = "application/json";
        request.ProtocolVersion = HttpVersion.Version11;
        request.Headers.Add("Accept-Language","de_DE");
        ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls;
        ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = delegate { return true; };
        byte[] bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(json);
        request.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
        using (var writer = request.GetRequestStream())
        {
            writer.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
            writer.Flush();
            writer.Close();
        }

        var httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
        using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpResponse.GetResponseStream()))
        {
            var jsonReturn = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
            return jsonReturn;
        }
    }