Hi Chuck,
Thanks for your followup. First, I'm glad that you've figured out the
problem. Also, as for the
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It would seem appropriate that the
Menu control should either render itself with an suitable default or throw
an appropriate exception that notifies you that the UserAgent string is
required.
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you mentioned, IMO, this is a reasonable behavior since webserver control
can require that the client request for a certain page always have a valid
Brower Capability info(UserAgent). And how to deal with the case that
client side may not provide UserAgent should be the ASP.NET application's
duty. for ASP.NET begin with 1.x, we can define clientside browser Info
mapping schema through the <browserCaps> ELEMENT under the
<system.web> sectionGroup. The default setting is to use "UserAgent" http
header to generate the BrowserCapability info for the client request (hold
in the Request.Browser property). So we can define the mapping for empty
UserAgent value in it. If you have interests, you can have a look at the
global level(machine.config or the global web.config) which contains the
default settings.
Thanks,
Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support
Get Secure!
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| From: "Chuck Hartman" <Ch**********@online.nospam>
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| Subject: Re: Unhandled Exception in ASP.NET 2 asp:Menu control
| Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:04:34 -0700
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| Steven,
|
| The mystery is solved.
|
| I set up an external server to demonstrate the problem to you, but then I
| could not reproduce the problem. The difference between the web apps was
| Security Trimming was turned on in one app and not in the other. My
browser
| had a persistent Forms Authentication cookie so it showed all the menu
| items. When my Windows service invoked the HttpWebRequest, it did not
pass
| in a CookieCollection, so it did not show any menu items. After I
retrieved
| and set the CookieCollection for the HttpWebRequest, all of the Menu
items
| are now rendered. In this case, it was my bad... Thanks for your help.
|
| However, it is very nice that the ASP.NET 2.0 server controls can adjust
| their rendering for different agents, but the lack of the UserAgent
string
| should not cause a control to crash. It would seem appropriate that the
| Menu control should either render itself with an suitable default or
throw
| an appropriate exception that notifies you that the UserAgent string is
| required. Thanks again.
|
| Chuck Hartman
|
| "Steven Cheng[MSFT]" <st*****@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
| news:YW*************@TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl...
| > Thanks for your further followup Chuck,
| >
| > Well since the problem still exists for HttpWebRequest sent request, I
| > think there must still have something we didn't provide in the request
| > message. Would you provide a simple test page(with menu control) that
can
| > reproduce the behavior on your side to me? I'll perform some tests on my
| > side and try comparing the http message between Httpwebrequest sent
| > message
| > and the IE generated one.
| >
| > Thanks,
| >
| > Steven Cheng
| > Microsoft Online Support
| >
| > Get Secure!
www.microsoft.com/security
| > (This posting is provided "AS IS", with no warranties, and confers no
| > rights.)
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| > | From: "Chuck Hartman" <Ch**********@online.nospam>
| > | References: <en**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>
| > <X7**************@TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl>
| > <ex**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>
| > | Subject: Re: Unhandled Exception in ASP.NET 2 asp:Menu control
| > | Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:46:29 -0700
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| > microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet:125872
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| > |
| > | Sorry, the exact UserAgent string that I used was:
| > | "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR
| > 1.1.4322;
| > | .NET CLR 2.0.50215)"
| > |
| > | "Chuck Hartman" <Ch**********@online.nospam> wrote in message
| > | news:ex**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
| > | > Steven,
| > | >
| > | > Your suggestion does eliminate the crash in the Menu server control.
| > | > However, the Menu control does not render itself properly when the
| > request
| > | > is initiated by the HttpWebRequest object. It does render properly
| > when
| > | > the page is requested from IE 6.
| > | >
| > | > I set a breakpoint for the server side menu control's Init event and
| > took
| > | > a look at the Request object's UserAgent string when accessing with
an
| > IE
| > | > browser. It contained almost what you suggested:
| > | > "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; SV1; .NET CLR
| > | > 1.1.4322)"
| > | > I set the UserAgent string for the HttpWebRequest to the exact above
| > | > string. I now receive a response stream for ALMOST what would be
| > expected.
| > | > The Menu control does not crash and most of the page is now rendered
| > | > properly. However, the Menu control does not render anything when
the
| > | > request comes from the HttpWebRequest object. What else does the
Menu
| > | > control need in the request to render itself properly? Thanks.
| > | >
| > | > Chuck Hartman
| > | >
| > | > "Steven Cheng[MSFT]" <st*****@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
| > | > news:X7**************@TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl...
| > | >> Hi Chuck,
| > | >>
| > | >> Welcome to ASPNET newsgroup.
| > | >> From your description, you're using the HttpWebRequest component to
| > | >> programmatically request remote pages's content. it works well
untial
| > | >> you're trying to access a remote ASP.NET 2.0 page which contains a
| > simple
| > | >> Menu control. This page works well when we navigate through normal
| > | >> browser,
| > | >> but continuously report non- reference error when accessing
through
| > the
| > | >> HTTPwebrequest component, yes?
| > | >>
| > | >> Based on my experience, it is likely caused by lack of the browser
| > | >> setting
| > | >> info when we use HttpWebrequest to request the asp.net 2.0 page. In
| > | >> asp.net
| > | >> 2.0, most web server controls are designed as browser /device
| > sensitive
| > | >> which means the control will adjust the Output Rendering setting
| > | >> according
| > | >> to the client side device, for example, it'll register different
| > script
| > | >> code according to different clientside browser. And Menu control
| > will
| > | >> retrieve such setting from the HttpRequest.Browser property and
this
| > | >> property is populated from the HTTP UserAgent header in the http
| > | >> request
| > | >> from client. When we accessing the web page through
httpwebrequest,
| > we
| > | >> generally don't set this field thus the serverside may not
populate
| > the
| > | >> Request.Browser field or any sub fields. I think you can try
setting
| > the
| > | >> HttpWebRequest's UserAgent propety (a string value). For example,
| > the
| > | >> IE6
| > | >> will use the following useragent header value:
| > | >>
| > | >> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; SV1; .NET CLR
| > | >> 1.1.4322)\
| > | >>
| > | >> Please have a test on the above things.
| > | >>
| > | >> Thanks,
| > | >>
| > | >> Steven Cheng
| > | >> Microsoft Online Support
| > | >>
| > | >> Get Secure!
www.microsoft.com/security
| > | >> (This posting is provided "AS IS", with no warranties, and confers
no
| > | >> rights.)
| > | >>
| > | >>
| > | >> --------------------
| > | >> | From: "Chuck Hartman" <Ch**********@online.nospam>
| > | >> | Subject: Unhandled Exception in ASP.NET 2 asp:Menu control
| > | >> | Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:07:27 -0700
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| > | >> 67.119.76.107
| > | >> | Path:
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| > | >> | Xref: TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl
| > | >> microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet:125610
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| > | >> |
| > | >> | I have a Windows service that requests web pages from a site
using
| > an
| > | >> | HttpWebRequest object. When I try to request a page from an
| > ASP.NET
| > 2
| > | >> site,
| > | >> | I get a WebException with message "The remote server returned an
| > error:
| > | >> | (500) Internal Server Error." I found a post that suggested to
| > catch
| > | >> the
| > | >> | WebException to retrieve the actual HttpWebResponse object for
more
| > | >> | information. The response returned is shown below.
| > | >> |
| > | >> | At first I thought this was a problem with my web app, but I can
| > now
| > | >> | reproduce this error with a very simple test case. I have
created a
| > | >> Form
| > | >> | containing only a simple asp:Menu with a simple
| > asp:SiteMapDataSource.
| > | >> The
| > | >> | page displays in an IE browser without error, but gets the
| > excpetion
| > | >> shown
| > | >> | below when trying to retrieve the response via a HttpWebRequest
| > with
| > | >> the
| > | >> | below code.
| > | >> |
| > | >> | Is this a problem in the ASP.NET 2 Menu or SiteMapDataSource, or
| > could
| > | >> there
| > | >> | be another problem with my code or server. If a control problem,
is
| > it
| > | >> | possible to work around this problem. Thanks.
| > | >> |
| > | >> | Chuck Hartman
| > | >> | -------------------------------------------
| > | >> | Uri homepage = new
Uri("http://localhost/SCVCC/Default3.aspx");
| > | >> | HttpWebRequest httpWebRequest =
| > | >> | (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(homepage);
| > | >> | httpWebRequest.Method = "GET";
| > | >> |
| > | >> | HttpWebResponse response = null;
| > | >> | Stream stream = null;
| > | >> | try
| > | >> | {
| > | >> | response = (HttpWebResponse)httpWebRequest.GetResponse();
| > | >> | stream = response.GetResponseStream();
| > | >> | }
| > | >> | catch (WebException ex)
| > | >> | {
| > | >> | if (ex.Status == WebExceptionStatus.ProtocolError)
| > | >> | {
| > | >> | response = ex.Response as HttpWebResponse;
| > | >> | if (response != null)
| > | >> | {
| > | >> | stream = response.GetResponseStream();
| > | >> | }
| > | >> | }
| > | >> | }
| > | >> | StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream);
| > | >> | string sHtmlResponse = reader.ReadToEnd();
| > | >> |
| > | >> | =============================
| > | >> | Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
| > | >> | Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the
execution
| > of
| > | >> the
| > | >> | current web request. Please review the stack trace for more
| > information
| > | >> | about the error and where it originated in the code.
| > | >> |
| > | >> | Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object
reference
| > not
| > | >> set
| > | >> | to an instance of an object.
| > | >> |
| > | >> | Source Error:
| > | >> |
| > | >> | An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the
| > | >> current
| > | >> web
| > | >> | request. Information regarding the origin and location of the
| > exception
| > | >> can
| > | >> | be identified using the exception stack trace below.
| > | >> |
| > | >> | Stack Trace:
| > | >> |
| > | >> |
| > | >> | [NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance
of
| > an
| > | >> | object.]
| > | >> | System.Web.UI.WebControls.Menu.OnPreRender(EventAr gs e,
Boolean
| > | >> | registerScript) +655
| > | >> | System.Web.UI.WebControls.Menu.OnPreRender(EventAr gs e) +22
| > | >> | System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +77
| > | >> | System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
| > | >> | System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
| > | >> | System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean
| > | >> | includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean
| > includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)
| > | >> +1787
| > | >> |
| > | >> |
| > | >>
| >
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