System.Net.WebException HTTP status code
C#Http Status-CodesWebexceptionC# Problem Overview
Is there an easy way to get the HTTP status code from a System.Net.WebException
?
C# Solutions
Solution 1 - C#
Maybe something like this...
try
{
// ...
}
catch (WebException ex)
{
if (ex.Status == WebExceptionStatus.ProtocolError)
{
var response = ex.Response as HttpWebResponse;
if (response != null)
{
Console.WriteLine("HTTP Status Code: " + (int)response.StatusCode);
}
else
{
// no http status code available
}
}
else
{
// no http status code available
}
}
Solution 2 - C#
By using the null-conditional operator (?.
) you can get the HTTP status code with a single line of code:
HttpStatusCode? status = (ex.Response as HttpWebResponse)?.StatusCode;
The variable status
will contain the HttpStatusCode
. When the there is a more general failure like a network error where no HTTP status code is ever sent then status
will be null. In that case you can inspect ex.Status
to get the WebExceptionStatus
.
If you just want a descriptive string to log in case of a failure you can use the null-coalescing operator (??
) to get the relevant error:
string status = (ex.Response as HttpWebResponse)?.StatusCode.ToString()
?? ex.Status.ToString();
If the exception is thrown as a result of a 404 HTTP status code the string will contain "NotFound". On the other hand, if the server is offline the string will contain "ConnectFailure" and so on.
> (And for anybody that wants to know how to get the HTTP substatus > code. That is not possible. It is a Microsoft IIS concept that is only > logged on the server and never sent to the client.)
Solution 3 - C#
(I do realise the question is old, but it's among the top hits on Google.)
A common situation where you want to know the response code is in exception handling. As of C# 7, you can use pattern matching to actually only enter the catch clause if the exception matches your predicate:
catch (WebException ex) when (ex.Response is HttpWebResponse response)
{
doSomething(response.StatusCode)
}
This can easily be extended to further levels, such as in this case where the WebException
was actually the inner exception of another (and we're only interested in 404
):
catch (StorageException ex) when (ex.InnerException is WebException wex && wex.Response is HttpWebResponse r && r.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.NotFound)
Finally: note how there's no need to re-throw the exception in the catch clause when it doesn't match your criteria, since we don't enter the clause in the first place with the above solution.
Solution 4 - C#
this works only if WebResponse is a HttpWebResponse.
try
{
...
}
catch (System.Net.WebException exc)
{
var webResponse = exc.Response as System.Net.HttpWebResponse;
if (webResponse != null &&
webResponse.StatusCode == System.Net.HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized)
{
MessageBox.Show("401");
}
else
throw;
}
Solution 5 - C#
You can try this code to get HTTP status code from WebException. It works in Silverlight too because SL does not have WebExceptionStatus.ProtocolError defined.
HttpStatusCode GetHttpStatusCode(WebException we)
{
if (we.Response is HttpWebResponse)
{
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)we.Response;
return response.StatusCode;
}
return null;
}
Solution 6 - C#
I'm not sure if there is but if there was such a property it wouldn't be considered reliable. A WebException
can be fired for reasons other than HTTP error codes including simple networking errors. Those have no such matching http error code.
Can you give us a bit more info on what you're trying to accomplish with that code. There may be a better way to get the information you need.