HTTP Protocol Violation

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I had the trouble a long time, and hope some experts can really help me.

I used HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse to get the content of an URL. It
throws "HTTP Protocol Violation". Even I set useUnsafeHeaderParsing =
"true" in configuration file, the problem remain. The content shows well in
IE. (My content-type is text/plain)

I contacted with the device provider. They told me that HTTP return does not
have HTTP header in order to keep backward compatibility.


My question is:
- Do we have an alternative way to get content of the URL other than
Vulnerable Microsoft HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse?
- The problem had been here for a long time, why Microsoft doesn’t fix it?
(Even it is not standard HTTP, but you can display in IE???)
- Any persion overwrite MS BeginGetResponse/EndGetResponse event?

Thanks
 
Thus wrote Qingdong Z.,
I had the trouble a long time, and hope some experts can really help
me.

I used HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse to get the content of an URL. It
throws "HTTP Protocol Violation". Even I set useUnsafeHeaderParsing =
"true" in configuration file, the problem remain. The content shows
well in IE. (My content-type is text/plain)
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IE doesn't use System.Net.
I contacted with the device provider. They told me that HTTP return
does not have HTTP header in order to keep backward compatibility.
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With what? More broken HTTP implementations? Any applicaton level firewall
might simply reject this stuff if configured to do so.
My question is:
- Do we have an alternative way to get content of the URL other than
Vulnerable Microsoft HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse?
Click to expand...

Roll your own HTTP implementation based on System.Net.Sockets. Or try another
HTTP implementation like Indy.
- The problem had been here for a long time, why Microsoft doesn’t fix
it?
Click to expand...

There's nothing to fix. Why support broken stuff?

Cheers,
 
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