in a Silverlight-Windows Phone 7-project I am creating an HttpWebRequest, get the RequestStream, write something into the Stream and try to get the response, but I always get a NotSupportedException: "System.Net.Browser.OHWRAsyncResult.AsyncWaitHandle threw an exception of type 'System.NotSupportedException'
My production code is far more complicated, but I can narrow it down to this small piece of code:
public class HttpUploadHelper
{
private HttpWebRequest request;
private RequestState state = new RequestState();
public HttpUploadHelper(string url)
{
this.request = WebRequest.Create(url) as HttpWebRequest;
state.Request = request;
}
public void Execute()
{
request.Method = "POST";
this.request.BeginGetRequestStream(
new AsyncCallback(BeginRequest), state);
}
private void BeginRequest(IAsyncResult ar)
{
Stream stream = state.Request.EndGetRequestStream(ar);
state.Request.BeginGetResponse(
new AsyncCallback(BeginResponse), state);
}
private void BeginResponse(IAsyncResult ar)
{
// BOOM: NotSupportedException was unhandled;
// {System.Net.Browser.OHWRAsyncResult}
// AsyncWaitHandle = 'ar.AsyncWaitHandle' threw an
// exception of type 'System.NotSupportedException'
HttpWebResponse response = state.Request.EndGetResponse(ar) as HttpWebResponse;
Debug.WriteLine(response.StatusCode);
}
}
public class RequestState
{
public WebRequest Request;
}
}
Does anybody know what is wrong with this code?
The NotSupportedException
can be thrown when the request stream isn't closed before the call to EndGetResponse
. The WebRequest stream is still open and sending data to the server when you're attempting to get the response. Since stream implements the IDisposable
interface, a simple solution is to wrap your code using the request stream in a using
block:
private void BeginRequest(IAsyncResult ar)
{
using (Stream stream = request.EndGetRequestStream(ar))
{
//write to stream in here.
}
state.Request.BeginGetResponse(
new AsyncCallback(BeginResponse), state);
}
The using block will ensure that the stream is closed before you attempt to get the response from the web server.