Help! HttpWebResponse errors

Hi, I am having a problem with HttpWebRequest exceptions being
thrown when it receives what it sees as invalid response
headers. The exception is throw when calling
request.GetResponse().

I need to relax the way HttpWebRequest handles headers, in
order to get the response text and parse it. The code I 'm using
is something like below. The difference is the real code uses a
valid url and ten kilobytes of data loaded from a textfile.

string url = "http://www.somedomain.com/some/action";
string data = "data=10k+of+encoded+data+loaded+here";
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
request.ContentLength = data.Length;
using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream())) {
writer.Write(data);
}
// The line below causes this error
// Error: System.Net.WebException: The server committed a protocol violation
// at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.CheckFinalStatus(Boolean mustThrow)
// at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
// at Testing.Post()
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())) {
data = reader.ReadToEnd();
}
request.Close();
return data;

You can see the problem is that HttpWebRequest doesn't like the
returned header. This what the returned header looks like. I got
these headers from Firefox/IE, so I figure I should also be able to
get them from an HttpWebRequest.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:05:25 GMT
Server: LiveRack
Set-Cookie: name_cookie=someuser; expires=Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:05:25 GMT; path=/some/action; domain=.somedomain.com
Set-Cookie: <a few of really big cookies here>
Set-Cookie: <appoximately 10 kilobytes worth>
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

<html><head><title>Please wait ...</title><script langage="Javascript">

</script>
<body>
<p align="center">Comment added.</p>
</body>

How can I get HttpWebRequest to relax and not throw
exceptions? I really need to receive the response text for my
application. Also, when try catching the WebException and
check the Response property, it's null.

Can someone please help me here?

Help! Http​WebResponse errors

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