HttpWebRequest.BeginGetResponse

Question

I need to make async request to web resource and use example from this page (link to full example):

HttpWebRequest myHttpWebRequest= (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://www.contoso.com");
RequestState myRequestState = new RequestState();  
myRequestState.request = myHttpWebRequest;
// Start the asynchronous request.
IAsyncResult result=
        (IAsyncResult) myHttpWebRequest.BeginGetResponse(new AsyncCallback(RespCallback),myRequestState);

But when I am testing the application the execution freeze(on 2-3 sec) on the last line of this code (i can watch it using debugger).

Why? Is it my mistake or it is a standard behaviour of the function?

Answer 1

You can try, I m sure thats better

private void StartWebRequest(string url)
{
   HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
   request.BeginGetResponse(new AsyncCallback(FinishWebRequest), request);
}

private void FinishWebRequest(IAsyncResult result)
{
   HttpWebResponse response = (result.AsyncState as HttpWebRequest).EndGetResponse(result) as HttpWebResponse;
}

Because of chross thread of textbox'value,But this is wpf application i will retag this, btw you can use webclient like

 private void tbWord_TextChanged(object sender, TextChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        WebClient wc = new WebClient();
        wc.DownloadStringCompleted += HttpsCompleted;
        wc.DownloadStringAsync(new Uri("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=" + tbWord.Text)); 
    }
    private void HttpsCompleted(object sender, DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Error == null)
        {

             //do what ever 
             //with using e.Result
        }
    }