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Robert Smith
Robert Smith

Reputation: 634

GetResponse not coming back using HttpWebRequest

Using form contenttype, I am getting stuck at this line:

var webresponse = (HttpWebResponse)webrequest.GetResponse();

For the url, you can use any value. Here is the full code:

public bool test() 
{

    string url = "https://www.google.com";

    // Create a new HTTP request object, set the method to POST and write the POST data to it
    var webrequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.CreateHttp(url);
    webrequest.Method = "POST";
    webrequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

    using (Stream postStream = webrequest.GetRequestStream())
    {
        //
    }

    // Make the request, get a response and pull the data out of the response stream
    var webresponse = (HttpWebResponse)webrequest.GetResponse();
    Stream responseStream = webresponse.GetResponseStream();
    var reader = new StreamReader(responseStream);

    string result = reader.ReadToEnd();

    // Normal Completion
    return true;
}

Does anyone know why it would get stuck on this line and not come back (when you are doing debugging):

var webresponse = (HttpWebResponse)webrequest.GetResponse();

Thank You

Upvotes: 1

Views: 207

Answers (1)

Robert Smith
Robert Smith

Reputation: 634

I found the problem! I was calling the method as an async task:

private async Task starttest()
{
    clsTester objTester = new clsTester();
    objTester.test();
}

...

var result = Task.Run(async () => await starttest());

I removed all that code and changed it to a worker thread:

private Thread workerThread = null;
private void starttest()
{
    clsTester objTester = new clsTester();
    objTester.test();
}

And then called it as follows:

...

// Initialise and start worker thread
this.workerThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(this.starttest));
this.workerThread.Start();

Everything is working now.

Upvotes: 1

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