Reputation: 1596
I'm trying to load an an Atom feed into a string and I'm using the following method:
private string GetXml(string urlString)
{
ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls | SecurityProtocolType.Ssl3 | SecurityProtocolType.Tls12 | SecurityProtocolType.Tls11;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
// Create a new HttpWebRequest object.Make sure that
// a default proxy is set if you are behind a firewall.
HttpWebRequest myHttpWebRequest1 =
(HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(urlString);
myHttpWebRequest1.KeepAlive = false;
myHttpWebRequest1.ContentType = "text/xml";
// Assign the response object of HttpWebRequest to a HttpWebResponse variable.
HttpWebResponse myHttpWebResponse1 =
(HttpWebResponse)myHttpWebRequest1.GetResponse();
Debug.WriteLine("\nThe HTTP request Headers for the first request are: \n{0}", myHttpWebRequest1.Headers);
Stream streamResponse = myHttpWebResponse1.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader streamRead = new StreamReader(streamResponse);
Char[] readBuff = new Char[256];
int count = streamRead.Read(readBuff, 0, 256);
Debug.WriteLine("The contents of the response are.......\n");
while (count > 0)
{
String outputData = new String(readBuff, 0, count);
sb.Append(outputData);
count = streamRead.Read(readBuff, 0, 256);
}
// Close the Stream object.
streamResponse.Close();
streamRead.Close();
return sb.ToString();
}
This works for most feeds, but http://tipsforbbq.com/RSS, which renders as an atom feed in my browser, returns an HTML page (the one found at http://tipsforbbq.com/). Does anyone know why this might be happening?
Upvotes: 0
Views: 181
Reputation: 3607
I had a similar problem with HttpWebRequest and I resolved it using a well known User Agent.
myHttpWebRequest1.UserAgent= @"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.1";
I hope this can help you.
Upvotes: 2