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|
| hello,
|
| I just started working with this class at the low level and am having
| issues.
|
| 1)  I am instantiating a StreamReader and feeding my NetworkStream to
| its constructor.  the bytes that the StreamReader reads from the server
| are perfect.  however the StreamReader never stops reading / listening!
| even after the last byte has been received!  it just keeps blocking
| and freezing my client app.  does anyone know why this is and what can
| be done about it?
|
| 2)  as a workaround to 1), I am parsing the server response to find the
| last byte.  when I do I manually stop the StreamReader.  is this really
| a "workaround" or is it basically what the System.Web.HttpRequest
| object does behind the scenes?
|
| 3)  using the process described in 2) my client runs fine - but only in
| debug mode.  in release mode the server response is empty.  this seems
| to be due to bad code.  I get my StreamReader to read the NetworkStream
| object directly after my StreamWriter wrote a HTTP request to it.  is
| there a command I should call in between the two?  you know, to delay
| the read until a server response has been received?
|
| long questions, I know.
|
| thx for your time
|

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk***@pobox.com> wrote in message
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| <A_StClai***@hotmail.com> wrote:
| > William Stacey [MVP] wrote:
| > > Is the server closing it's side of the connection.  When it does that,
| > > StreamReader should return 0 (i.e. EOS).
| >
| > yes.  I am confident in the server code.  it had always worked well
| > when the client was using the System.Net.HttpRequest object.
|
| That doesn't mean the server is closing the connection. For Keep-Alive
| connections, the server will specify how much data there is before it
| sends the response, and then keep the connection alive afterwards, so
| the client has to use the knowledge of how much data to read in order
| to know when it's finished.
|
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> hello,
>
> I just started working with this class at the low level and am having
> issues.
>
> 1)  I am instantiating a StreamReader and feeding my NetworkStream to
> its constructor.  the bytes that the StreamReader reads from the server
> are perfect.  however the StreamReader never stops reading / listening!
>  even after the last byte has been received!  it just keeps blocking
> and freezing my client app.  does anyone know why this is and what can
> be done about it?
>
> 2)  as a workaround to 1), I am parsing the server response to find the
> last byte.  when I do I manually stop the StreamReader.  is this really
> a "workaround" or is it basically what the System.Web.HttpRequest
> object does behind the scenes?
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