Tag: WebClient

[System.Net.WebClient] does not return data properly

When using the System.Net.WebClient class you are actually using a class that wraps WebRequesr and WebResponse with some benefits as abstracting stream and handling logic. However, this, comes at a price and sometimes along with some errors, too. When a web server responds with an HTTP 500 Status the WebClient throws an exception and you do not have access to […]

By Ronald Rink Posted on 2013-05-15

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Creating a WebClient Request from an HTTP payload

The other day I was using Fiddler to examine some web traffic to automate some tasks. I then stumbled upon a cool Fiddler extension called Request to Code (by Chad Sowald), which takes any HTTP(s) request and converts it to C# code using the System.Net.WebRequest and System.Net.WebResponse classes. Unfortunately, the extension does not support PowerShell. As I am using the […]

By Ronald Rink Posted on 2013-04-27