Error(?) using WebRequest

Hello all,

I am trying to do a WebRequest from my Netduino to poll a string from another system. I am using the code below to perform the request:

 public double GetTemperature(string address)        {            var request = WebRequest.Create(_url);            var response = request.GetResponse();            request.Dispose();            var sr = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());            var source = sr.ReadToEnd();            response.Dispose();            sr.Dispose();            ...        }

Problem is my code gets stuck at "GetResponseStream()".

Response headers:

Any ideas how to make this work?

BR Larre

Does it just hang when it hits the GetResponseStream() line or throw an exception?  Have you tried adjusting the Timeout property on the WebRequest to see if there is an issue with it timing out?  Also, how big of a response are you expecting?  If it's really big, could it be flooding the device's memory?

Hi,

No exception, it just hangs when it hits the GetResponseStream(). I haven't tried adjusting the Timeout since I seem to get a response straight away.

When I debug the response I can see that Content Length is set to -1 and Content Type is an empty string.

The expected response is really small, se below:

Solved!

Still think that there was a problem with headers in the previous test but I solved it using another way (as always) see below.

public double GetTemperature(string address)        {            var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(_url + address);            request.Timeout = 3000;            double returnTemperature = -99D;            try            {                using (var stream = request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream())                using (var reader = new StreamReader(stream))                {                    char[] tempChar = new char[5];                    reader.Read(tempChar, 0, 5);                    var temperature = new string(tempChar);                    ...                }            }        }

Instead of "ReadToEnd" I am using the ordinary reader and in this specific case I only need the first few chars of the response.