Hi,

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:45 AM, victoria <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello list,


> I'm not sure if this is a Monotouch bug or if we're doing something wrong
> here. We're trying to use System.Net.WebClient to fetch some data async
> with
> a nice optional "Cancel this download" button for the user - however trying
> to cancel the request blows up everything. Behold:
>
>  // random somewhat big file to not download
>  string file =
> "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.0/linux-2.0.1.tar.bz2";;
>
>  WebClient client = new WebClient();
>  client.DownloadDataAsync(new Uri(file));
>  client.CancelAsync();  // kaboom
>

I just tried this exact code, and it works fine for me.

I've looked at both the exception and our WebClient implementation, and the
exception doesn't make much sense - so something is obviously going wrong.
I suggest you file a bug with a complete test case, and I'll have a look at
it asap.

Rolf


>
> The code above works just fine on .NET/Windows - also, changing
> DownloadDataAsync to DownloadStringAsync seems to work as we would expect
> it
> to (no kaboom, but we need the raw data so unfortunately we can't use it)
>
> Thoughts? Bug? Help?
>
> / V
>
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