HttpWebResponse.ContentType Property
.NET Framework 2.0
Gets the content type of the response.
Namespace: System.Net
Assembly: System (in system.dll)
Assembly: System (in system.dll)
The following example displays the value of this property.
using System; using System.Net; using System.Text; using System.IO; public class Test { // Specify the URL to receive the request. public static void Main (string[] args) { HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create (args[0]); // Set some reasonable limits on resources used by this request request.MaximumAutomaticRedirections = 4; request.MaximumResponseHeadersLength = 4; // Set credentials to use for this request. request.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials; HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse (); Console.WriteLine ("Content length is {0}", response.ContentLength); Console.WriteLine ("Content type is {0}", response.ContentType); // Get the stream associated with the response. Stream receiveStream = response.GetResponseStream (); // Pipes the stream to a higher level stream reader with the required encoding format. StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader (receiveStream, Encoding.UTF8); Console.WriteLine ("Response stream received."); Console.WriteLine (readStream.ReadToEnd ()); response.Close (); readStream.Close (); } } /* The output from this example will vary depending on the value passed into Main but will be similar to the following: Content length is 1542 Content type is text/html; charset=utf-8 Response stream received. <html> ... </html> */
Windows 98, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows CE, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC, Windows Mobile for Smartphone, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition
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