Question

public ActionResult GetGeoLocation(string address)
{
    var uri = string.Format(
        "http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address={0}&sensor=false",
        HttpUtility.UrlEncode(address)
        );

    var request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(uri);
    var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse(); 

    return Json(response);
}

This code seems to call out just fine, but it’s not returning the proper results? I must be missing something?

Answer 1

You are not reading the response data.

Use GetResponseStream to get the stream containing the body of the response.

var responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();

// read from responseStream