What is the actual exception that is being thrown? That might help us figure
out what is going on.
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| Thanks. I did all that but it doesn't really give me any insight as to
why it's happening.
|
| "John Saunders" wrote:
|
| > | > > Hi,
| > >
| > > I'm trying to simulate a form post using the WebRequest class. But I
| > can't find this error (see note below) documented on MSDN.
| > >
| > > string strId = "someid";
| > > string strName = "somename";
| > >
| > > ASCIIEncoding encoding=new ASCIIEncoding();
| > >
| > > string postData="userid="+strId;
| > > postData += ("&username="+strName);
| > > byte[] data = encoding.GetBytes(postData);
| > >
| > > Prepare web request...
| > > HttpWebRequest myRequest =
| >
(HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("
https://secure.somecontentwepayfor.com");
| > > myRequest.Method = "POST";
| > > myRequest.ContentType="application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
| > > myRequest.ContentLength = data.Length;
| > >
| > > Stream newStream=myRequest.GetRequestStream();
| > > newStream.Write(data,0,data.Length); <---**ERROR OCCURS HERE**.
| > > newStream.Close();
| > > WebResponse resp = myRequest.GetResponse();
| >
| > Throw a try block around that code and display the full exception in the
| > catch. In addition, if it's a WebException, you may be able to display
the
| > Status property:
| >
| > try
| > {
| > string strId = "someid";
| > string strName = "somename";
| >
| > ASCIIEncoding encoding=new ASCIIEncoding();
| >
| > string postData="userid="+strId;
| > postData += ("&username="+strName);
| > byte[] data = encoding.GetBytes(postData);
| >
| > Prepare web request...
| > HttpWebRequest myRequest =
| >
(HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("
https://secure.somecontentwepayfor.com");
| > myRequest.Method = "POST";
| > myRequest.ContentType="application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
| > myRequest.ContentLength = data.Length;
| >
| > Stream newStream=myRequest.GetRequestStream();
| > newStream.Write(data,0,data.Length); <---**ERROR OCCURS HERE**.
| > newStream.Close();
| > WebResponse resp = myRequest.GetResponse();
| > }
| > catch (WebException wex)
| > {
| > Page.Trace.Write(wex.ToString());
| > Page.Trace.Write(wex.Status);
| > }
| > catch (Exception ex)
| > {
| > Page.Trace.Write(ex.ToString());
| > }
| > --
| > John Saunders
| > johnwsaundersiii at hotmail
| >
| >
| >
