webrequest

I'm building a page in my ASP.NET solution that retrieves most of its data from a 3rd Party API Service. The page itself will need to make approximately 5 individual different calls to the API to populate all of its controls, as each Web Request to the API brings back different sets of Data. I would like to deal with each separate Web request i make on a new thread, simultaneously so that load time is reduced. Each request I'm making looks like this :- WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(requestUrl); string response = new StreamReader(request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();

I'm trying to download a number of pdf files automagically given a list of urls. Here's the code I have: HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url); request.Method = "GET"; var encoding = new UTF8Encoding(); request.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.AcceptLanguage, "en-gb,en;q=0.5"); request.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.AcceptEncoding, "gzip, deflate"); request.Accept = "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8"; request.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0"; HttpWebResponse resp = (HttpWebResponse

My monotouch app is doing periodic background synchronization with a web-service. It runs perfectly and detects Airplane mode correctly. When I switch off WiFi, it automatically starts using the WWAN (GPRS, 3G) connection. So far I'm very satisfied, but... After switching off Airplan Mode there is no way my app will reconnect when there is no WiFi available. It detects correctly using a NetworkReachability object that WWAN is available and that a connection is required. But the first try times out (after 90 seconds I abort the running request using a timer). When I try again I get a

I know this sort of counts as reinventing the wheel here, but I need to know to communicate with a web service through http/soap/xml and web messages. The reason is I need to communicate with a third party web service for work, but there is something wrong with the WSDL or something and it does not work when connecting to it with the .NET wizard. So, can anyone give me a process/simple example/etc. of how to do this or can anyone give me a link to somewhere that explains it? I'm not very savvy with web requests and responses. How do I construct and send the request? How do I parse the response

I'm revisiting som old code of mine and have stumbled upon a method for getting the title of a website based on its url. It's not really what you would call a stable method as it often fails to produce a result and sometimes even produces incorrect results. Also, sometimes it fails to show some of the characters from the title as they are of an alternative encoding. Does anyone have suggestions for improvements over this old version? public static string SuggestTitle(string url, int timeout) { WebResponse response = null; string line = string.Empty; try { WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create

I am trying to use the .NET WebRequest/WebResponse classes to access the Twitter streaming API here "http://stream.twitter.com/spritzer.json" . I need to be able to open the connection and read data incrementally from the open connection. Currently, when I call WebRequest.GetResponse method, it blocks until the entire response is downloaded. I know there is a BeginGetResponse method, but this will just do the same thing on a background thread. I need to get access to the response stream while the download is still happening. This just does not seem possible to me with these classes. There is a

I want to send a post request to an API with some parameters they ask for... I ended up just creating a string, it's ugly but I do not know a way of making it work differently. I then found lots of variations on this WebRequest class, but unfortunately I cannot get it to work. Main problem is probably because I am not really understanding how this is all fitting together but basically, the examples I have been following use WebRequest method GetResponse ... even on MSDN it has this, so I am wondering why when I try to call it in my code, I am not getting that choice? Same goes for