[Mono-list] System.Net.WebResponse.GetResponseStream - stream.ReadByte() blocks until request ends

[Mike Hadlow]

HI

I'm trying to write a client for the twitter streaming API, a 'comet' style
service that returns chunks of JSON over an open HTTP connection.
Unfortunately the response stream doesn't return anything until the
response ends, which it never does.

My code looks a bit like this...

using(var stream = response.GetResponseStream)
{
    int byteAsInt;
    while ((byteAsInt = stream.ReadByte()) != -1)
    {
        // blocks on previous line rather than streaming bytes as they
arrive :(
    }
}

Is this a known bug?

Many thanks
Mike
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