[Mono-list] Weird issue making HTTP requests

[Maurício Linhares]

I'm getting the following error for some of the HTTP requests I'm making:

Exception during TraceManager initialization:
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown
by the target of an invocation. ---> System.MissingMethodException:
Method not found:
'System.Configuration.IConfigurationSectionHandler.Create'.
 at System.Reflection.MonoMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj,
BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder,
System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
[0x000eb] in /private/tmp/monobuild/build/BUILD/mono-2.10.9/mcs/class/corlib/System.Reflection/MonoMethod.cs:234
  at System.Reflection.MethodBase.Invoke (System.Object obj,
System.Object[] parameters) [0x00000] in
/private/tmp/monobuild/build/BUILD/mono-2.10.9/mcs/class/corlib/System.Reflection/MethodBase.cs:96
  at System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager.GetSection
(System.String sectionName, System.String path, System.Web.HttpContext
context) [0x001e6] in
/private/tmp/monobuild/build/BUILD/mono-2.10.9/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web.Configuration_2.0/WebConfigurationManager.cs:516
  at System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager.GetSection
(System.String sectionName, System.String path) [0x00000] in
/private/tmp/monobuild/build/BUILD/mono-2.10.9/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web.Configuration_2.0/WebConfigurationManager.cs:418
  at System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager.GetWebApplicationSection
(System.String sectionName) [0x0002c] in
/private/tmp/monobuild/build/BUILD/mono-2.10.9/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web.Configuration_2.0/WebConfigurationManager.cs:670
  at System.Web.TraceManager..ctor () [0x0001c] in
/private/tmp/monobuild/build/BUILD/mono-2.10.9/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web/TraceManager.cs:55

By looking at the source, the method doesn't really exists, so I'm
pretty puzzled as to why the mono runtime is making a direct call to
something that doesn't exist at all.

Also, it seems like this code is related to webapplications but I'm
running a console app that makes HTTP requests, not a web server. Is
this some kind of configuration that I'm missing?

What's funny is that many other HTTP requests do work, but some
specific ones fail with this error and the stack trace is not exactly
revealing as to why this class is being called at all.

Any hints on how to solve this issue?

-
Maurício Linhares
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