How to get response of httpRequest In VB.NET When exception is thrown

King_Kong

Recently I was working on a project I have faced this problem In ob when I make httprequest it returns the status code as well as the response string also other things like headers and cookies but when I make the same request in vb.net it an exception occurred and display status code and exception string, not the response like in vb status code is 404 and response is "user not found" but in vb only exception is thrown. I have used different libraries like xnet. leaf.xnet and the OB one Extreme.net.
I want to know how to capture that response even if the exception occurs. Kindly help me I'm stuck here.
Note: I'm not making brute force attack working on a project .

Ruri

You have to catch the HttpException, unwrap it and it will contain the response information which you can check for response code etc.

Br4uN

I didn't test it so used it as reference/idea

Leaf.xNet
 HttpRequest LeafRequest = new HttpRequest()
 {
 UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36",
 KeepAliveTimeout = 5000, //Time in Milliseconds   
 ConnectTimeout = 5000, //Time in Milliseconds 
 ReadWriteTimeout = 5000, //Time in Milliseconds 
 IgnoreProtocolErrors = false, //Required for StatusCode
 AllowAutoRedirect = false,
 UseCookies = true
 };

 var responseContent = LeafRequest.Get("http://example.com"); // ===Get Request === 
 var statuscode = (int)responseContent.StatusCode + " " + responseContent.StatusCode.ToString(); //For Leaf.xNet
 LeafRequest?.Dispose(); // for leaf,xNet only
 
 Console.WriteLine (statuscode); //Expected result on sussefull --> 200 OK


HttpWebRequest -->Like Ruri said
try
{
HttpWebRequest RequestWebGet = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://example.com");// ====Get Request ====
RequestWebGet.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36";
RequestWebGet.Headers.Add("Pragma", "no-cache");
RequestWebGet.Headers.Add("Accept", "*/*");
RequestWebGet.Timeout = (5000); 
}
catch (Exception ex) //for HttpWebRequest Normal No leaf.XNet
{
using (WebResponse response = ex.Response)
 {
	HttpWebResponse responseWebGet = (HttpWebResponse)response; 
	var StCode = (int)responseWebGet.StatusCode + responseWebGet.StatusCode.ToString();
	
	Console.WriteLine (StCode); //Expected example --> 304 Not Modified
 }

}

King_Kong

@Ruri Can you please show a small piece of code to unwrap an exception?
@Br4uN I appreciate your effort but I want to capture the response not the status code like you show in leaf.xnet request.

Ruri

Just do

responseContent.ToString()

to get the response body...

King_Kong

@Ruri
Where to place responseContent.ToString()

Leaf.xNet
try 
HttpRequest LeafRequest = new HttpRequest()
 {
 UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36",
 KeepAliveTimeout = 5000, //Time in Milliseconds   
 ConnectTimeout = 5000, //Time in Milliseconds 
 ReadWriteTimeout = 5000, //Time in Milliseconds 
 IgnoreProtocolErrors = false, //Required for StatusCode
 AllowAutoRedirect = false,
 UseCookies = true
 };

 var responseContent = LeafRequest.Get("http://example.com"); // ===Get Request === 
 var statuscode = (int)responseContent.StatusCode + " " + responseContent.StatusCode.ToString(); //For Leaf.xNet
 LeafRequest?.Dispose(); // for leaf,xNet only
 
 Console.WriteLine (statuscode);
catch ex as Httpexception

End try

As in the case of exception, it directly moves the catch block, and responseContent can't be used there. Kindly guide me a little bit as I'm not good at exception handling.

Ruri

after var statusCode etc... put var responseSource = responseContent.ToString();
mate can you code VB or are you just pasting code hoping it works? xD

King_Kong

@Ruri
I know how to code in VB but not that good as you are.

var responseSource = responseContent.ToString();

The above code does give a response but if the request was successful. But in case of exception, it doesn't give any response. So is there any way to get the actual response from the server in case of exception? I have also seen the OB source but couldn't find the solution and thanks for replying.