Problem fixed via discussion on StackOverflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1883022/why-does-webresponse-never-end-when-reading-twitter-firehose-stream
FYI: needed to add a response.Abort() before the break, though others
reported function working without the need for the Abort() call.
On Dec 13, 9:31 pm, martimedia <duffym...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> With the sample function below the program never returns from iDispose
> WebResponse/StreamReader (TcpClient works fine):
>
> public void GetStatusesFromStream(string username, string password,
> int nMessageCount)
> {
> WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("http://stream.twitter.com/
> 1/statuses/sample.json");
> request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password);
>
> using (WebResponse response = request.GetResponse())
> {
> using (var stream = response.GetResponseStream())
> {
> using (var reader = new StreamReader(stream))
> {
> while (!reader.EndOfStream)
> {
> Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadLine());
>
> if (nMessageCount-- < 0)
> break;
> }
> Console.WriteLine("Start iDispose");
> }
> Console.WriteLine("Never gets here!!!");
> }
> }
>
> Console.WriteLine("Done - press a key to exit");
> Console.ReadLine();
>
> }
>
> I've raised the question at stackoverflow but with no solution so
> far...
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1883022/why-does-webresponse-never...
