Hi,
I am grabbing a page off a web server using networkstream, but I am finding that I am getting data corruption. The corruption occurs at the end of each data packet recieved, almost as though networkstream is reporting the length of the data read wrong (bRead) resulting in junk data at the end of the buffer, it does appear to be the case that I am getting ALL of the expected data as well. A snippet of the code I am using is this:
Dim bdata = New [Byte](client.ReceiveBufferSize - 1) {}
If netStream.CanRead Then
Dim bRead As Int32
Do
bRead = netStream.Read(bData, 0, bData.Length)
Debug.Print("Bytes Read: " & bRead)
If bRead > 0 Then
responseData = responseData & Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bData, 0, bRead)
End If
Loop While bRead > 0
Else
client.Close()
netStream.Close()
End If
The web server is running on port 80, if I point a browser at the page the source looks fine so its not corruption at the server end. I was checking for the end of the data stream using DataAvailable but found that I was losing the last chunk of data (a documented issue).
Am I missing something obvious here or is there a bug in the networkstream object
Cheers
Si

networkstream problem
Cornelius Mostert
OK, I have given up on the networkstream class, tried everything even the microsoft examples but none of them seem to work properly. Although one thing I have noticed is that every single networkstream code example out there only ever attempts to get a single data packet...... Hmmm....
Anyway I have switched to using the sockets class, seems to work fine - need to run a few more test tho to make sure it is stable. (my experiences with VB .NET 2005 over the past couple of weeks are leading me to believe its more beta quality than release...)
Cheers
Si