Question

In WebException I cannot see body of GetResponse. This is my code in C#:

try {                
  return GetResponse(url + "." + ext.ToString(), method, headers, bodyParams);
} catch (WebException ex) {
    switch (ex.Status) {
      case WebExceptionStatus.ConnectFailure:
         throw new ConnectionException();                        
     case WebExceptionStatus.Timeout:
         throw new RequestTimeRanOutException();                     
     case WebExceptionStatus.NameResolutionFailure:
         throw new ConnectionException();                        
     case WebExceptionStatus.ProtocolError:
          if (ex.Message == "The remote server returned an error: (401) unauthorized.") {
              throw new CredentialsOrPortalException();
          }
          throw new ProtocolErrorExecption();                    
     default:
          throw;
    }

I see header but I don’t see body. This is output from Wireshark for the request:

POST /api/1.0/authentication.json HTTP/1.1    
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded    
Accept: application/json    
Host: nbm21tm1.teamlab.com    
Content-Length: 49    
Connection: Keep-Alive    

userName=XXX&password=YYYHTTP/1.1 500 Server error    
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0    
Content-Length: 106    
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8    
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5    
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727    
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET    
X-Powered-By: ARR/2.5

Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:49:41 GMT    
Connection: close    

{"count":0,"startIndex":0,"status":1,"statusCode":500,"error":{"message":"Invalid username or password."}}

Is it possible somehow to see the message text in WebException?
Thank you.

Answer 1

var resp = new StreamReader(ex.Response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();

dynamic obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(resp);
var messageFromServer = obj.error.message;