Question

I need a way of calling a web page from inside my .net appliction.

But i just want to send a request to the page and not worry about the response.

As there are times when the response can take a while so i dont want it to hang the appliction.

I have been trying in side the page_load event

WebClient webC = new WebClient(); Uri newUri = new Uri('http://localhost:49268/dosomething.aspx'); webC.UploadStringAsync(newUri, string.Empty); 

Even though its set to Async, it still seams to hang as the page wont finish rendering until the threads have finsished

Answer 1

Doak, Was almost there, but each time I put any of the request in a sepreate thread the page still wouldn’t render until all the thread had finished running.

The best way I found was adjusting Doak’s method, and just sticking a timeout in there and swallowing the error.

I know its a hack but it does work 😛

WebRequest wr = WebRequest.Create('http://localhost:49268/dostuff.aspx'); wr.Timeout = 3500;  try {     HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)wr.GetResponse(); } catch (Exception ex) {     //We know its going to fail but that dosent matter!! }