WebRequest.BeginGetResponse(AsyncCallback, Object) Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.Net

Assemblies:

netstandard.dll, System.Net.Requests.dll

Source:

WebRequest.cs

When overridden in a descendant class, begins an asynchronous request for an Internet resource.

public:
 virtual IAsyncResult ^ BeginGetResponse(AsyncCallback ^ callback, System::Object ^ state);

public virtual IAsyncResult BeginGetResponse(AsyncCallback? callback, object? state);

abstract member BeginGetResponse : AsyncCallback * obj -> IAsyncResult
override this.BeginGetResponse : AsyncCallback * obj -> IAsyncResult

Public Overridable Function BeginGetResponse (callback As AsyncCallback, state As Object) As IAsyncResult

Parameters

callback

AsyncCallback

The AsyncCallback delegate.

state

Object

An object containing state information for this asynchronous request.

Returns

IAsyncResult

An IAsyncResult that references the asynchronous request.

Exceptions

NotImplementedException

Any attempt is made to access the method, when the method is not overridden in a descendant class.

Examples

The following example uses BeginGetResponse to asynchronously request the target resource. When the resource has been obtained, the specified callback method will be executed.

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;

public static class WebRequestAPMSample
{
    private const int BufferSize = 1024;

    private class RequestState
    {
        public StringBuilder ResponseBuilder { get; }
        public byte[] ReadBuffer { get; }
        public WebRequest Request { get; }
        public WebResponse Response { get; set; }
        public Stream ResponseStream { get; set; }
        public RequestState(WebRequest request)
        {
            ReadBuffer = new byte[BufferSize];
            ResponseBuilder = new StringBuilder();
            Request = request;
        }
        public void OnResponseBytesRead(int read) => ResponseBuilder.Append(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ReadBuffer, 0, read));
    }

    public static ManualResetEvent allDone = new ManualResetEvent(false);
    

    public static void Main()
    {
        try
        {
            // Create a WebRequest object to the desired URL.
            WebRequest webRequest = WebRequest.Create("http://www.contoso.com");
            webRequest.Timeout = 10_000; // Set 10sec timeout.

            // Create an instance of the RequestState and assign the previous myHttpWebRequest
            // object to its request field.
            RequestState requestState = new RequestState(webRequest);

            // Start the asynchronous request.
            IAsyncResult result = webRequest.BeginGetResponse(new AsyncCallback(ResponseCallback), requestState);

            // Wait for the response or for failure. The processing happens in the callback.
            allDone.WaitOne();

            // Release the WebResponse resources.
            requestState.Response?.Close();
        }
        catch (WebException e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("\nMain(): WebException raised!");
            Console.WriteLine("\nMessage:{0}", e.Message);
            Console.WriteLine("\nStatus:{0}", e.Status);
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue..........");
            Console.Read();
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("\nMain(): Exception raised!");
            Console.WriteLine("Source :{0} ", e.Source);
            Console.WriteLine("Message :{0} ", e.Message);
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue..........");
            Console.Read();
        }
    }

    private static void HandleSyncResponseReadCompletion(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
    {
        RequestState requestState = (RequestState)asyncResult.AsyncState;
        Stream responseStream = requestState.ResponseStream;

        bool readComplete = false;
        while (asyncResult.CompletedSynchronously && !readComplete)
        {
            int read = responseStream.EndRead(asyncResult);
            if (read > 0)
            {
                requestState.OnResponseBytesRead(read);
                asyncResult = responseStream.BeginRead(requestState.ReadBuffer, 0, BufferSize, new AsyncCallback(ReadCallBack), requestState);
            }
            else
            {
                readComplete = true;
                HandleReadCompletion(requestState);
            }
        }
    }

    private static void ResponseCallback(IAsyncResult asynchronousResult)
    {
        try
        {
            // AsyncState is an instance of RequestState.
            RequestState requestState = (RequestState)asynchronousResult.AsyncState;
            WebRequest request = requestState.Request;
            requestState.Response = request.EndGetResponse(asynchronousResult);

            // Read the response into a Stream.
            Stream responseStream = requestState.Response.GetResponseStream();
            requestState.ResponseStream = responseStream;

            // Begin the Reading of the contents of the HTML page and print it to the console.
            IAsyncResult asynchronousReadResult = responseStream.BeginRead(requestState.ReadBuffer, 0, BufferSize, new AsyncCallback(ReadCallBack), requestState);
            HandleSyncResponseReadCompletion(asynchronousReadResult);
        }
        catch (WebException e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("\nRespCallback(): Exception raised!");
            Console.WriteLine("\nMessage:{0}", e.Message);
            Console.WriteLine("\nStatus:{0}", e.Status);
            allDone.Set();
        }   
    }

    // Print the webpage to the standard output, close the stream and signal completion.
    private static void HandleReadCompletion(RequestState requestState)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("\nThe contents of the Html page are : ");
        if (requestState.ResponseBuilder.Length > 1)
        {
            string stringContent;
            stringContent = requestState.ResponseBuilder.ToString();
            Console.WriteLine(stringContent);
        }
        Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue..........");
        Console.ReadLine();

        requestState.ResponseStream.Close();
        allDone.Set();
    }

    private static void ReadCallBack(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
    {
        if (asyncResult.CompletedSynchronously)
        {
            // To avoid recursive synchronous calls into ReadCallBack,
            // synchronous completion is handled at the BeginRead call-site.
            return;
        }

        try
        {
            RequestState requestState = (RequestState)asyncResult.AsyncState;
            Stream responseStream = requestState.ResponseStream;
            int read = responseStream.EndRead(asyncResult);
            // Read the HTML page and then print it to the console.
            if (read > 0)
            {
                requestState.OnResponseBytesRead(read);
                IAsyncResult asynchronousResult = responseStream.BeginRead(requestState.ReadBuffer, 0, BufferSize, new AsyncCallback(ReadCallBack), requestState);
                HandleSyncResponseReadCompletion(asynchronousResult);
            }
            else
            {
                HandleReadCompletion(requestState);
            }
        }
        catch (WebException e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("\nReadCallBack(): Exception raised!");
            Console.WriteLine("\nMessage:{0}", e.Message);
            Console.WriteLine("\nStatus:{0}", e.Status);
            allDone.Set();
        }
    }
}

Remarks

Caution

WebRequest, HttpWebRequest, ServicePoint, and WebClient are obsolete, and you shouldn't use them for new development. Use HttpClient instead.

The BeginGetResponse method starts an asynchronous request for a response. The callback method that implements the AsyncCallback delegate uses the EndGetResponse method to return the WebResponse from the Internet resource.

Note

The WebRequest class is an abstract class. The actual behavior of WebRequest instances at run time is determined by the descendant class returned by the WebRequest.Create method. For more information about default values and exceptions, see the documentation for the descendant classes, such as HttpWebRequest and FileWebRequest.

Note

If a WebException is thrown, use the Response and Status properties of the exception to determine the response from the server.

See also

• EndGetResponse(IAsyncResult)
• GetResponse()
• Making Asynchronous Requests