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WebRequest is an abstract class in .NET Framework for making requests to URIs (including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FILE protocols). Related tags: [httpwebrequest], [ftpwebrequest].

WebRequest is an abstract class in .NET Framework for making a request to a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).

MSDN documentation for WebRequest.

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Mocking WebResponse's from a WebRequest

I have finally started messing around with creating some apps that work with RESTful web interfaces, however, I am concerned that I am hammering their servers every time I hit F5 to run a series of tests.. Basically, I need to get a series of web…
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Is WebRequest The Right C# Tool For Interacting With Websites?

I'm writing a small tool in C# which will need to send and receive data to/from a website using POST and json formatting. I've never done anything like this before in C# (or any language really) so I'm struggling to find some useful information to…
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Creating WPF BitmapImage from MemoryStream png, gif

I am having some trouble creating a BitmapImage from a MemoryStream from png and gif bytes obtained from a web request. The bytes seem to be downloaded fine and the BitmapImage object is created without issue however the image is not actually…
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How to Replace WebClient with HttpClient?

I have the following WebClient inside my asp.net mvc web application: using (WebClient wc = new WebClient()) // call the Third Party API to get the account id { string url = currentURL + "resources/" + ResourceID + "/accounts?AUTHTOKEN=" +…
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C# - How to make a HTTP call

I wanted to make an HTTP call to a website. I just need to hit the URL and dont want to upload or download any data. What is the easiest and fastest way to do it. I tried below code but its slow and after 2nd repetitive request it just goes into…
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HttpWebRequest to URL with dot at the end

when i do a GET with WebRequest.Create("http://abc/test.") i get 404 because according to fiddler the trailing dot gets stripped away by .NET and the web server needs the dot. how can i prevent that or work around it. any workaround is appreciated!
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Using HTTP Authentication with a C# WebRequest

I want to make a web request to a page that needs authenticating. How would I go about doing this? I found something that said possibly to use the Credentials property, but I'm not sure how to use it.
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Multithreading a large number of web requests in c#

I have an program where I need to create some large number of folders to an external sharepoint site (external meaning I can't use the sharepoint object model). Web requests work well for this, but simply doing them one at a time (send request, wait…
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How can I do digest authentication with HttpWebRequest?

Various articles (1, 2) I discovered make this look easy enough: WebRequest request = HttpWebRequest.Create(url); var credentialCache = new CredentialCache(); credentialCache.Add( new Uri(url), // request url "Digest", // authentication type …
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How to properly catch a 404 error in .NET

Possible Duplicate: How can I catch a 404? I would like to know the proper way to catch a 404 error with c# asp.net here is the code I'm using HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)…
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What makes this HTTPS WebRequest time out even though it works in the browser?

Here's my request: var request = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create("https://mtgox.com/"); request.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer(); request.AllowAutoRedirect = false; request.Accept =…
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Starting async method as Thread or as Task

I'm new to C#s await/async and currently playing around a bit. In my scenario I have a simple client-object which has a WebRequest property. The client should send periodically alive-messages over the WebRequests RequestStream. This is the…
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How to use WebRequest to POST some data and read response?

Need to have the server make a POST to an API, how do I add POST values to a WebRequest object and how do I send it and get the response (it will be a string) out? I need to POST TWO values, and sometimes more, I see in these examples where it says…
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How to calculate HttpWebRequest spent outbound and inbound internet traffic

I have the below function to fetch a page. My question is i want to calculate how much internet connection is spent Both inbound (download) and outbound traffic (sent) How can i do that ? Thank you My function public static string…
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"too many automatic redirections were attempted" error message when using a httpWebRequest in .NET

I am attempting to request a page like "http://www.google.com/?q=random" using the webrequest class in vb.net. we are behind a firewall, so we have to authenticate our requests. I have gotten past the authentication part by adding my…
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