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[MisterCookie]

So i'm using this :

HttpWebRequest wr = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create("http://maps.weather.com/web/radar/us_orl_ultraradar_large_usen.jpg");
HttpWebResponse ws = (HttpWebResponse)wr.GetResponse();

  And at the getResponse() I always get:

{System.Net.WebException: The request timed out   at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetResponse (IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0    

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[JWordsworth · Accepted solution]

I was getting similar problems (and still do sometimes). A couple of things I have noticed;

1. Adding the code below initially fixed the problem for me. I'm pretty sure the Timeout parameter doesn't do anything, I just added it as habit, but setting UserAgent means that the WebServer believes you are a real web-browser - as many sites seem to block GET requests from clients that don't have a UserAgent set.

webRequest.UserAgent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)";
webRequest.Timeout = 30000;

2. I also found that if I have been testing for sometime, then some servers seem to block you.

3. What's really weird - my latest problem (which I've not resolved yet), is that whenever I initialise a WebRequest as soon as my app loads, then I get this error. However, if I force this action to take place sometime after my app has finished loading (just a second later) through a UI button - then it always seems to work. 

Hope something above helps!

[MisterCookie]

Nr 3 fixt my problem. Thanks!

[niwrA]

Yeah, there are some really weird problems with http in the sdk at the moment. I've gotten some serious headaches from them these last few days, where on another day I barely had any issues at all.

[niwrA]

I also get this message right after the timeout:

"D:\Program Files (x86)\SCE\Pss\mono\etc\mono\2.1\machine.config" is too deep subdirectory depth

"D:\Program Files (x86)\SCE\Pss\mono\etc\mono\2.1\machine.config" is too deep subdirectory depth
The request timed out: at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetResponse (IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

[nuekiseki]

same here i always have issue with networking

[jamesnorman91]

niwrA, Please can you post us some code of what you are trying to do?

Thanks,
James

[niwrA]

Hi James, Sorry I missed this post the first time around. I was trying to read an xml file from the web, using pretty much the same code as I posted as an xmldoc.load. workaround earlier in another thread. I am away from home but I'll try to dig up the link to that at least. Edit: here http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/General/System-Xml-XmlDocument-load/td-p/15820825 I am using the code from my last post ...