Question

I need to load an XmlDocument from a URL. This has been working but it appears I may need to specify a user agent string.

Since XmlDocument doesn’t support this directly, I’m trying to do this via HttpWebRequest:

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
request.UserAgent = "My User Agent";
xml.Load(request.GetRequestStream());

However, the call to xml.Load() above raises a “Cannot send a content-body with this verb-type.” exception.

Can someone who understands this better than I help me out?

Answer 1

GetRequestStream() is for request-data.

Check out GetResponse( ) instead.