Ok. Good call - will revert to web client. Wired MS prioritized the HTTP status code so lowly I'm the API.
I wonder if what I saw with HttpRequest is a bug. Probably not, because WebClient uses HttpRequest (I think), so perhaps some configuration setup I was getting wrong before opening the stream. Sent from my iPhone On 13/08/2012, at 2:30 AM, Jason Awbrey <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe you can get WebClient status codes by catching WebException and > looking at it's Response.StatusCode > > assuming you're only interested in failure status codes, this might work for > you > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Phil Cockfield <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > I'm using the HttpWebRequest to do a PUT on my server. The web-server is > Node.js. The code is very by the book standard stuff: > > > // Prepare the data. > > var dataText = data.ToString(); > > > var byteArray = dataText.ToByteArray(); > > > > > // Setup the web-request. > > var req = WebRequest.Create(url); > > > req.Method = "PUT"; > > > req.ContentType = "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8"; > > > req.ContentLength = byteArray.Length; > > > > // Process the stream. > > > var dataStream = req.GetRequestStream(); > > > dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length); > > > dataStream.Close(); > > > > > The problem is, when I call GetRequestStream it issues the request to the > server and the response is complete before the next line (dataStream.Write) > executes. As a result no data is actually sent. It's like the stream > prematurely flushes upon creation. In fact, I didn't think it was supposed > to call the server at all until GetResponse was invoked. > > Am I doing something dumb here? Or, is it something with the way Node is > behaving (that would be weird if it were). Or is HttpWebRequest flakey? > > This works if I use WebClient. But I need HttpStatus codes - and my > understanding is you can't get at those from WebClient. (If you can, I can't > find them anywhere! :-)) > > Anyone else seeing weirdness with HttpWebRequest? > > -- > Phil Cockfield > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MonoTouch mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch > >
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