I am trying to determine the response
returned by HttpClient
's GetAsync
method in the case of 404 errors using C# and .NET 4.5.
At present I can only tell that an error has occurred rather than the error's status such as 404 or timeout.
Currently my code my code looks like this:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
dotest("http://error.123");
Console.ReadLine();
}
static async void dotest(string url)
{
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
HttpResponseMessage response = new HttpResponseMessage();
try
{
response = await client.GetAsync(url);
if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
Console.WriteLine(response.StatusCode.ToString());
}
else
{
// problems handling here
string msg = response.IsSuccessStatusCode.ToString();
throw new Exception(msg);
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
// .. and understanding the error here
Console.WriteLine( e.ToString() );
}
}
My problem is that I am unable to handle the exception and determine its status and other details of what went wrong.
How would I properly handle the exception and interpret what errors occurred?