I am developing a Windows Store App using C# and I am very new at this platform (I have been primarily working on IOS and Android).
I have a simple Async method to download raw data from a remote server. It works ok except that I keep seeing random incomplete reads from the WebResponse class. It is pretty simple method and I cant figure out why it would end prematurely. The remote server is working fine ( ios/web/android fine and are retrieving data) so I am obviously doing something wrong here.
Any help will be great in figuring out this problem.
public async Task<byte[]> doGETRequestAsync(String url)
{
callSuccess = false;
byte[] responseFromServer = null;
try
{
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url);
request.Method = "GET";
WebResponse response = await request.GetResponseAsync();
using (Stream dataStream = response.GetResponseStream())
{
responseFromServer = new byte[response.ContentLength];
int readCount = await dataStream.ReadAsync(responseFromServer, 0, (int)response.ContentLength);
if (readCount != response.ContentLength)
throw new IOException("Premature end of data. Expected: " + response.ContentLength + " received: " + readCount);
}
response.Dispose();
}
catch (HttpRequestException hre)
{
Debug.WriteLine("Exception performing network call : " + hre.ToString());
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Debug.WriteLine("Exception performing network call : " + e.ToString());
}
return responseFromServer;
}