HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse

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I am trying to get the Response string by using C#'s WebRequest and WebResponse classes.

It pulls the string but some part such as forms are missing from response.But when I open the same URL in browser(manually) and inspect elements using firebug it shows every thing.

What may be the problem that I am not getting complete response from WebResponse...???

How do you get the string? Maybe you have a bug in that code? — L.B, Dec 13 '12 at 08:27

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 13 '12 at 08:24

There are several reasons possible (Javascript, IFRAMEs etc.), for example:

IF the site is using AJAX/JavaScript to build those forms dynamically on the client THEN what you see is correct... Background: since WebRequest does not execute Javascript the result "HttpWebRequest" versus Browser is different...

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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Because WebRequest does not run Javascript code inserted into website. You would have to evaluate javascript by yourself. Duplicate: C# httpwebrequest and javascript

edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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