Question

I am busy working on a mobile application that retrieves data from a web service.
Ofcourse everything is working perfectly, I get everything I need to and I can consume the services without much effort… on the emulator.

However, when I move over to testing this application on the device, instead of getting back the data that I am expecting I am getting a website returned. How am I supposed to handle this?

Currently I am using this to call my service: (using system.net – I dont know if this is what I should be using on windows phone 7 either)

WebClient proxy = new WebClient();
string strURI = "http://www.google.co.za";
proxy.OpenReadCompleted +=
        new OpenReadCompletedEventHandler(proxy_openreadcompleted);
proxy.OpenReadAsync(new Uri(strURI));

Please note: I am not really calling google, it is just an example. So anyways I am expecting my JSON to be returned, instead I am getting a message from the service provider to change mobile options… I can put this into isolated storage and render it with a browser, however I do not know what the source of the message is so when you click on a button, the forms use relative URLs, so instead of it doing what it is intened to do I just see what it is trying to call.

Is there anyway to get the source of the response? I am looking for a source like http://vodafonelive.mobi/ or something like that. If someone can tell me what to do I would greatly appreciate it, my current thinking is that if I can identify the source I can create a webbrowser task so that my application does not need to handle this, however… since I am calling a specific source I don’t know how to identify where the response is comming from.

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Ok so after spending some time on this, I finally found a way that I could get a response uri (where the response was comming from) by using another method to do the call to the service:

So basically this is the call:

WebRequest request = HttpWebRequest.Create(strURI);
var result = (IAsyncResult)request.BeginGetResponse(ResponseCallback, request);

So in the function ResponseCallBack function I do something like this:

WebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)result.AsyncState;
WebResponse response = request.EndGetResponse(result);

which then allows me to check the response uri (the source of the intercepted message) and have the native browser handle the html that I was not expecting.

WebBrowserTask webBrowserTask = new WebBrowserTask();
webBrowserTask.Uri = response.ResponseUri;

Thanks for the help though, hopefully this will help someone with a similar issue.