System.Net WebClient

[Steven Van Eyck]

Hi

I'm using the function UploadData of the System.Net.WebClient class to post
data to a server-side processing script.

Via the returnvalue of the function, I'm able to capture the HTML code
produced by the server-side script, but I was wondering if there is an
easier way to determine weither or not the server-side script has treated my
data correctly ?

Isn't there a basic return code I can use to determine if:
- the script processed my data correctly (like a code 200)
- the script threw an exception (like an internal server error)

Thanks very much for your feedback.

Kind regards

Steven

[Joerg Jooss]

Thus wrote Steven,

Hi

I'm using the function UploadData of the System.Net.WebClient class to
post data to a server-side processing script.

Via the returnvalue of the function, I'm able to capture the HTML code
produced by the server-side script, but I was wondering if there is an
easier way to determine weither or not the server-side script has
treated my data correctly ?

Isn't there a basic return code I can use to determine if: - the
script processed my data correctly (like a code 200) - the script
threw an exception (like an internal server error)

You could use the HTTP status code as a general indicator. But web applications
won't usually die with a HTTP 500 due to minor issues (e.g. failed form validation),
so this is a rather brittle appraoch. To be on the safe side, you will have
to check the actual HTML for keywords that can indicate success and failure.

Cheers,
--
Joerg Jooss
ne********@joergjooss.de

[Steven Van Eyck]

Hi Joerg

Thanks very much for your reaction.

Cheers

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Thus wrote Steven,

>Hi

I'm using the function UploadData of the System.Net.WebClient class to
post data to a server-side processing script.

Via the returnvalue of the function, I'm able to capture the HTML code
produced by the server-side script, but I was wondering if there is an
easier way to determine weither or not the server-side script has
treated my data correctly ?

Isn't there a basic return code I can use to determine if: - the
script processed my data correctly (like a code 200) - the script
threw an exception (like an internal server error)

You could use the HTTP status code as a general indicator. But web
applications won't usually die with a HTTP 500 due to minor issues (e.g.
failed form validation), so this is a rather brittle appraoch. To be on
the safe side, you will have to check the actual HTML for keywords that
can indicate success and failure.

Cheers,
--
Joerg Jooss
ne********@joergjooss.de