Interestingly, the HttpWebResponse.GetResponseStream() that you get from the WebException.Response is not the same as the response stream that you would have received from server. In our environment, we're losing actual server responses when a 400 HTTP status code is returned back to the client using the HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse objects. From what we've seen, the response stream associated with the WebException's HttpWebResponse is generated at the client and does not include any of the response body from the server. Very frustrating, as we want to message back to the client the reason for the bad request.

试试这个(这是vb代码:):

Try

Catch exp As WebException
  Dim sResponse As String = New StreamReader(exp.Response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd
End Try

我知道这个问题很久以前就有答案了，但我做了一个扩展方法，希望能帮助其他遇到这个问题的人。

代码:

public static class WebRequestExtensions
{
    public static WebResponse GetResponseWithoutException(this WebRequest request)
    {
        if (request == null)
        {
            throw new ArgumentNullException("request");
        }

        try
        {
            return request.GetResponse();
        }
        catch (WebException e)
        {
            if (e.Response == null)
            {
                throw;
            }

            return e.Response;
        }
    }
}

用法:

var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.CreateHttp("http://invalidurl.com");

//... (initialize more fields)

using (var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponseWithoutException())
{
    Console.WriteLine("I got Http Status Code: {0}", response.StatusCode);
}

我在尝试连接谷歌的OAuth2服务时也遇到了类似的问题。

我最终手动编写POST，而不是使用WebRequest，就像这样:

TcpClient client = new TcpClient("accounts.google.com", 443);
Stream netStream = client.GetStream();
SslStream sslStream = new SslStream(netStream);
sslStream.AuthenticateAsClient("accounts.google.com");

{
    byte[] contentAsBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(content.ToString());

    StringBuilder msg = new StringBuilder();
    msg.AppendLine("POST /o/oauth2/token HTTP/1.1");
    msg.AppendLine("Host: accounts.google.com");
    msg.AppendLine("Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
    msg.AppendLine("Content-Length: " + contentAsBytes.Length.ToString());
    msg.AppendLine("");
    Debug.WriteLine("Request");
    Debug.WriteLine(msg.ToString());
    Debug.WriteLine(content.ToString());

    byte[] headerAsBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(msg.ToString());
    sslStream.Write(headerAsBytes);
    sslStream.Write(contentAsBytes);
}

Debug.WriteLine("Response");

StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(sslStream);
while (true)
{  // Print the response line by line to the debug stream for inspection.
    string line = reader.ReadLine();
    if (line == null) break;
    Debug.WriteLine(line);
}

写入响应流的响应包含您要查找的特定错误文本。

特别是，我的问题是在url编码的数据块之间放置了端点。当我把它们拿出来的时候，一切都正常了。您可以使用类似的技术连接到您的服务并读取实际的响应错误文本。

扩展函数的异步版本:

    public static async Task<WebResponse> GetResponseAsyncNoEx(this WebRequest request)
    {
        try
        {
            return await request.GetResponseAsync();
        }
        catch(WebException ex)
        {
            return ex.Response;
        }
    }

Interestingly, the HttpWebResponse.GetResponseStream() that you get from the WebException.Response is not the same as the response stream that you would have received from server. In our environment, we're losing actual server responses when a 400 HTTP status code is returned back to the client using the HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse objects. From what we've seen, the response stream associated with the WebException's HttpWebResponse is generated at the client and does not include any of the response body from the server. Very frustrating, as we want to message back to the client the reason for the bad request.