WebRequest.Create problem
- by Saurabh
My requirement is downlaoding a HTTM page. Like and I am using WebRequest.Create.
But the line
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create("http://www.mayosoftware.com");
Is throwinh an exception {"Configuration system failed to initialize"}.
I am working in a compmany. Does it due to proxy or anything? But it’s occurring while creation of the URL it self.
Exception trace is:
at System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.PrepareConfigSystem()
at System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.GetSection(String sectionName)
at System.Configuration.PrivilegedConfigurationManager.GetSection(String sectionName)
at System.Net.Configuration.WebRequestModulesSectionInternal.GetSection()
at System.Net.WebRequest.get_PrefixList()
at System.Net.WebRequest.Create(Uri requestUri, Boolean useUriBase)
Code is like
void GetHTTPReq()
{
Looking forward on it. The complete code is as follows but problem is in the starting itself
:
\ // used to build entire input
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
// used on each read operation
byte[] buf = new byte[8192];
// prepare the web page we will be asking for
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create("http://www.mayosoftware.com");
// execute the request
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)
request.GetResponse();
// we will read data via the response stream
Stream resStream = response.GetResponseStream();
string tempString = null;
int count = 0;
do
{
// fill the buffer with data
count = resStream.Read(buf, 0, buf.Length);
// make sure we read some data
if (count != 0)
{
// translate from bytes to ASCII text
tempString = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buf, 0, count);
// continue building the string
sb.Append(tempString);
}
}
while (count > 0); // any more data to read?
// print out page source
Console.WriteLine(sb.ToString());
}
