> Our application is written in C# and uses http remoting technology.
> Server and client utilizes http channel for communications.
>
> On some win2k sp4 machines with .Net 1.1 sp1 the client is unable to
> access the server even when the server is located on the same machine.
>
> The error does not occur when using tcp channel instead of the http
> channel.
>
> We traced the problem to HTTPWebRequest using a small test
> application (see attachment) that uses the HTTPWebRequest class to
> get the html content of a web site page.
>
> When running the project following lines threw an exception (see
> below) HttpWebResponse loWebResponse = (HttpWebResponse)
> loHttp.GetResponse();
>
>
> The stacked trace for JIT debugger:
> ************** Exception Text **************
> System.Net.WebException: The operation has timed-out.
>    at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
>    at wwHTTP.SimpleHttpWebRequest.cmdGo_Click(Object sender,
> EventArgs e)    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
>    at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
>    at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
>    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons
> button, Int32 clicks)
>    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
>    at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
>    at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
>    at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
>    at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
>    at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32
> msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
>
>
>
> Extra details:
>
> No proxy is defined.
>
> All updates from the Microsoft Windows Update website are installed.
>
> We installed Visual studio.Net on the machine and ran the sample
> project, the following error was recived:
> An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in
> mscorlib.dll.
> Additional information: Invalid or unsupported code page type.
>
>
> Any help resolving this issue will be appreciated.