[Pnet-developers] HttpRequest

[Ross_Mallett]

I was trying to port an application from MSVC70 C# on
Windows to DotGNU Portable.NET 0.7.4 on Linux 

(1) I have been having trouble with the WebRequest. My code reads:

    request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create (url);
            request.Method
= "POST";
            request.AllowWriteStreamBuffering
= true;

           Stream reqStream
= request.GetRequestStream ();
            writer =
new XmlTextWriter (reqStream, null);

...

First problem is the HTTP message created by the Web Request has no Content-Length
card - and it should have one.

Checked the source code - it doesn't set it.

Had to modify my server to read to the end of message instead of using
the Content-Length to code around this problem. 




(2) However, despite the fact that a valid message was sent in reply, 

        response = (HttpWebResponse) request.GetResponse
();

hangs. 

However, I think 

       public virtual WebResponse
GetResponse()
        {
               
throw new NotSupportedException("GetResponse");
        }


There is nothing wrong with the response. There is no error, just a well-formed
HTTP message coming back. The identical Windows code handles it just fine,
as does a variant Perl version - and I'm unsure what it is waiting on.