"casey chesnut" <casey@MORE_SPAMbrains-N-brawn.com> wrote in message
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> I'm writing a .NET 2003 C# WinForm application that needs to display the
> thumbnails for videos from yahoo search.
> Can get the video search results, which include the url to the thumbnail.
> But when I try to download the thumbnail image, I keep getting a
> SystemProtocolViolation.
>
> I've tried 2 different methods, and both fail for yahoo thumbnails
> (although they work for other images on the web).
>
> string url = "http://re2.mm-b1.yimg.com/image/1626538472"; //fails
> //string url = "http://www.mperfect.net/blog/bNbLogo4.jpg"; //works
>
> Technique 1 :
> WebClient wc = new WebClient();
> Stream s = wc.OpenRead(url);
> pictureBox1.Image = Image.FromStream(s); s.Close();
>
> Technique 2:
> HttpWebRequest wReq = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(url); wReq.Accept
> = "image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
> application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel,
> application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */*"; wReq.UserAgent =
> "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR
> 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR
> 2.0.50727)"; wReq.Headers.Add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate");
> wReq.Headers.Add("UA-CPU", "x86");
> wReq.Headers.Add("Accept-Language","en-us");
> //wReq.KeepAlive = false;
> //wReq.ProtocolVersion = HttpVersion.Version10; HttpWebResponse wResp =
> (HttpWebResponse) wReq.GetResponse(); Stream s =
> wResp.GetResponseStream(); Image i = Image.FromStream(s); s.Close();
>
> I've also tried WebRequest, which is slightly more generic than
> HttpWebRequest.
>
> Any ideas on how to get around this?
>
> Thanks,
> casey
>