Question

I am writing the c# component of a .aspx page which an external site will be sending XML to. My page needs to be able to receive the XML and parse it, but I am getting hung up on receiving the XML.

My page is getting hit with the XML page, but Request.Files.Count==0 and Request.InputStream.Length==0, even though I know that both of these statements should be false because the page is logging the reception of the file and HttpContext.Current != null. I am using the following code:

    Stream stream = HttpContext.Current.Request.InputStream;
    stream.Position = 0;
    XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(stream);

    log("" + Request.Files.Count, tw);
    log("Does the current request exist?",tw);
    log(HttpContext.Current != null ? "Yes" : "No",tw);
    log("XML Retrieved!", tw);
    log("Byte Length of " + stream.Length, tw);

My log.txt file has the following output:

    0
    Does the current request exist?
    Yes
    XML Retrieved!
    Byte Length of 0

Answer 1

Issue Solved, in this case I needed to reference Page.Request.InputStream instead of HttpContext.Current.Request.InputStream.

My code for receiving the XML and reading it into a String:

    Page.Response.ContentType = "text/xml";
    StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(Page.Request.InputStream);
    String main = Server.UrlDecode(sr.ReadToEnd());