Why "(500) Internal Server Error" throwed?

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Andy Chen

Hi,

When I am using the fowllowing code to open page
http://spaces.msn.com/members/mailcall/
....
try{
string url = http://spaces.msn.com/members/mailcall/;
HttpWebRequest httpReq = null;
HttpWebResponse httpResp = null;
httpReq = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
httpResp = (HttpWebResponse) httpReq.GetResponse();
}
catch(WebException ex)
{
....
}
....
I always got an WebException which says "The remote server returned an
error: (500) Internal Server Error". But actually if you open that page in
IE, it can be opened without any problem. How can I open this page in my
program and get the html source?

Any help would appreciate!

Andy
 
Thus wrote Andy,
Hi,

When I am using the fowllowing code to open page
http://spaces.msn.com/members/mailcall/
...
try{
string url = http://spaces.msn.com/members/mailcall/;
HttpWebRequest httpReq = null;
HttpWebResponse httpResp = null;
httpReq = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
httpResp = (HttpWebResponse) httpReq.GetResponse();
}
catch(WebException ex)
{
...
}
...
I always got an WebException which says "The remote server returned an
error: (500) Internal Server Error". But actually if you open that
page in
IE, it can be opened without any problem. How can I open this page in
my
program and get the html source?
Any help would appreciate!
Click to expand...

You don't send any HTTP header on which spaces.msn.com may rely on, like
User-Agent or Accept-Language. Try to send the same HTTP headers like a browser
(e.g. IE6) does. You can use tools like Fiddler to capture the HTTP traffic.

Cheers,
 
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