Question

You know Twitter is not serving its widget javascript file over https so I decided to serve it through httphandler and so far, I am lost!

Here is what I have done so far :

public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) {

    context.Response.ContentType = "application/javascript";

    WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js");
    request.Method = "GET";
    request.ContentType = "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8";

    using (WebResponse response = request.GetResponse()) {

        using (Stream requestStream = response.GetResponseStream()) {

            Stream outStream = context.Response.OutputStream;
            byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
            int len = (int)response.ContentLength, bytes;

            while (len > 0 && (bytes =
                requestStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0) {

                outStream.Write(buffer, 0, bytes);
                len -= bytes;
            }
        }
    }
}

I am getting no error but when I debug the code, I saw that response.ContentLength is coming back as -1. What am I missing here?

UPDATE

Tried the below code as well to see if it makes any difference and didn’t work either:

public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) {

    context.Response.ContentType = "application/x-javascript";

    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js");
    request.Accept = "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8";
    request.Method = "GET";

    using (WebResponse response = request.GetResponse()) {

        using (Stream requestStream = response.GetResponseStream()) {

            Stream outStream = context.Response.OutputStream;
            byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
            int len = (int)response.ContentLength, bytes;

            while (len > 0 && (bytes =
                requestStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0) {

                outStream.Write(buffer, 0, bytes);
                len -= bytes;
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

I solved my problem with the below code. not sure if it is the right way of doing it :

    public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) {

        context.Response.ContentType = "application/x-javascript";

        HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js");
        request.Accept = "application/javascript";
        request.KeepAlive = false;
        request.Method = "GET";

        HttpWebResponse webresponse = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

        Encoding enc = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1252);
        StreamReader loResponseStream = new
          StreamReader(webresponse.GetResponseStream(), enc);

        string Response = loResponseStream.ReadToEnd();

        context.Response.Write(Response);
    }