Hi All, I have an application that I am building to run on a Pocket PC (Compact .net Framework), the application is designed to make a web request (using system.net.webrequest class) and request and XML document which is then read into a dataset. Kind of a simple way to transferring a dataset from server to pocket PC I Guess.

I had been scratching my head for hours wondering why I keep getting timeout errors, and finally got to the boottom of it. It seems that if I strategically insert a pause then everything works fine. The code I am using is below and you can see that I have put a Messagebox statement in to create this pause in execution. Without the messagebox statement the code files with a Timeout Error on GetRequestStream Line.

On a different note it only sems to fail if the generic handler on the webserver does a "Request.Form" call (Which is important), if I remove any context.request.form calls then the page executes fine without the delay. It is important that the device passes form fields as part of the request which is why I have hte content tyep set to "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".

Any Idea's, is there a better way to do this? I'd really like to avoide putting in extra delays as these devices are slow enough!

myhttpWebRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(DestinationURL)
        If blnUseSecurity Then
            myhttpWebRequest.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential(strUsername, strPassword)
        End If
        myhttpWebRequest.PreAuthenticate = True
        myhttpWebRequest.UserAgent = "SOL-1 JasJam"
        myhttpWebRequest.Method = "POST"
        myhttpWebRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
        myhttpWebRequest.AllowWriteStreamBuffering = True
        If blnUseProxy Then
            Dim NetProxy As New Net.WebProxy(strProxyURL, intProxyPort)
            myhttpWebRequest.Proxy = NetProxy
        End If

        Dim strURLFormData As String = FormData
        Dim myBuff() As Byte = ASCII.GetBytes(strURLFormData.ToCharArray)
        myhttpWebRequest.ContentLength = strURLFormData.Length
        MessageBox.Show("Insert Pause Here!")
        Dim newStream As Stream = myhttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream()
        newStream.Write(myBuff, 0, myBuff.Length)
        newStream.Close()