C# WSE2 can't get HTTP Status Code, please help

[chickendavis]

Hi folks,

I have what seems like a fairly straight forward question which im sure has a simple answer as well..but i can't seem to find it. I'm using the Microsoft .NET WSE2 library in order to call web services. When it fails to connect or server returns 500 error, etc.. i can see the message in teh exception but i can't seem to find a way to get at the actual '500' code or '200' or whatever code has occured. Here is a snippet from my code:

try {
SoapWebRequest request = new SoapWebRequest(url);
...bunch of code here.......
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
}
catch (Exception ex) {
Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
}

I've tried looking at the exception object, the request and response objects but no matter where i look i can't find the HttpStatusCode. I know that if i had an HttpWebResponse object, it has a StatusCode property....but WebResponse is not a HttpWebResponse object.

Can someone out there help me out?
Thanks so much.

-Dave

[Plater]

Frequently the request.GetResponse(); can be type-casted into a better object.

Which is to say that a SoapWebResponse that inherits from WebResponse is being returned, but casted as a WebResponse.
Try something like this:

SoapWebResponse response = (SoapWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

[chickendavis]

Thanks for the suggestion Plater but i've already tried this. There is no HTTPStatus property on the SoapWebResponse object... nor can i find it on any other properties of this object.

There has to be some way to do this...

[Plater]

Well it's going to be "200 OK", since I believe it throws a WebException if it gets any other status.
After having re-read your message, I see you are trapping with the base Exception type. Try catching specific exception objects (Like the WebException)

[chickendavis]

Already tried that as well. :(
Keep in mind, i'm traversing the exception in visual studio debug mode, so i can see all properties of the exception object regardless of what type is in the catch statement...but i just can't seem to find any properties etc which will give me the http code. I don't want to pull it out of the exception message text as this is not reliable.

[Plater]

Hmm doesn't look like you can get at it without parsing the message.

[chickendavis]

That's what i was afraid of. In my opinion, it's absolutely ridiculous that the http status code cannot be retrieved. I would think this is something frequently needed by developers. It's a significant oversight on microsoft's part....

[boyank]

It's easier than you think. Just catch the WebException and do some casting like so:

catch (WebException ex)
{
response = (HttpWebResponse)ex.Response;

// Displays "NotFound" for 404
MessageBox.Show(response.StatusCode);
}