The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly

Question

Hello , i get this error message : The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly at this code 

 

 try
                {

                    HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://x.x.x.x:4042/admin.cgi?pass=test&mode=viewxml");

                    req.ContentType = "text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"";
                    req.Accept = "text/xml";
                    req.Method = "HEAD";

                    WebResponse resp = req.GetResponse();
                    
                    StreamReader r = new StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream());

                    richTextBox1.AppendText(r.ReadToEnd()+"\n");


                }
                catch (System.Net.WebException webe)
                {
                    richTextBox1.AppendText(webe.ToString() + "\n");
                    richTextBox1.AppendText(webe.Response.ToString() + "\n");
                    richTextBox1.AppendText(webe.Message.ToString());

                }

 

 

can you help me ? thanks

Answer 1

There can be n number of reasons for this error. Try to follow these threads

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/netfxnetcom/thread/246ffc07-1cab-44b5-b529-f1135866ebca/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3497575/getting-underlying-connection-was-closed-on-httpwebrequest

Bing Search

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Thanks, A.m.a.L Hashim Dot Net Goodies

Answer 2

thanks for replying , i tried the first link and didnot work , the second link its not visual C#

Answer 3

Hi Invader,

Try using these methods instead of StreamReader because i have seen that you are reading xml response.

XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(resp ); or

XmlTextReader reader=new XmlTextReader(resp );

Happy Coding

Thanks,

BR,

JollyWagoner

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