Question

I apologise if this is a bit dim but I want to send something like this over an sslstream to a server that I have acquired a secure socket connection to…

GET /F5Check/qpi/1 HTTP/1.1
Host: *****.com
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: max-age=0
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.52 Safari/536.5
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3

I tried using a string builder

var sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.AppendLine("GET /F5Check/qpi/1 HTTP/1.1");
sb.AppendLine(string.Format("Host: {0}", host));
sb.AppendLine("Connection: keep-alive");
sb.AppendLine("User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.52 Safari/536.5");
sb.AppendLine("Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8");
sb.AppendLine("Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch");
sb.AppendLine("Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8");
sb.AppendLine("Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3");

and then doing this

//Translate the data.
byte[] sendBuffer = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(sb.ToString());

//Send the data.
requestStream.Write(sendBuffer);

where sb is the stringbuilder object!

I am simply not getting any response from the server when I try to read from the stream so clearly the server can’t make any sense of my dumbass request!

I know I could use variations of webrequest to do the same thing but there is a specific reason why I am trying to do this…

Basically I need to know what to encode for sending so that I can effect a get request?

Answer 1

A Shot in the dark:

Try setting the request’s header Connection to “close”.