hi all,
I am new in asp.net and my company had a project and all of this project devolopers leave from here , no one know about the project. I need to update it.
Actually all are configured locally in my windowsXP system. database ,iis,project file all are here.

while I am using webrequest I get an error
"The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error."
the error and code are here
Please help me
The error is

Server Error in '/ava-006' Application.
The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.

Source Error:

Line 50: End If
Line 51:
Line 52: wResp = wr.GetResponse
Line 53: sr = New System.IO.StreamReader(wResp.GetResponseStream)
Line 54: Shtml = sr.ReadToEnd


Source File: F:\Prajeesh\ava-006\lead.report.aging.aspx.vb Line: 52

Stack Trace:

[WebException: The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.]
System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() +5375997
ava_006.lead_report_aging.GetReport(String strFormat, String strWeek) in F:\Prajeesh\ava-006\lead.report.aging.aspx.vb:52
ava_006.lead_report_aging.btnView_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in F:\Prajeesh\ava-006\lead.report.aging.aspx.vb:73
System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) +107
System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +110
System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +10
System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) +13
System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData) +36
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +3436


Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.3623; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.3618

AND the code I use is

<pre lang="vb">Function GetReport(ByVal strFormat As String, ByVal strWeek As String) As String
        Dim wr As WebRequest
        Dim wResp As WebResponse
        Dim sr As StreamReader
        Dim Shtml As String
        If InStr(Request.ServerVariables(&quot;path_info&quot;), &quot;ava-006&quot;) &gt; 0 Then
            wr = HttpWebRequest.Create(&quot;[url]http://&quot;[/url] &amp; Request.ServerVariables(&quot;server_name&quot;) &amp; &quot;/ava-006/lead.report.agingsub.aspx?pFormat=&quot; &amp; strFormat &amp; &quot;&amp;pWeek=&quot; &amp; strWeek)
        Else
            wr = HttpWebRequest.Create(&quot;[url]http://&quot;[/url] &amp; Request.ServerVariables(&quot;server_name&quot;) &amp; &quot;/lead.report.agingsub.aspx?pFormat=&quot; &amp; strFormat &amp; &quot;&amp;pWeek=&quot; &amp; strWeek)
        End If
        wResp = wr.GetResponse
        sr = New System.IO.StreamReader(wResp.GetResponseStream)
        Shtml = sr.ReadToEnd
        GetReport = Shtml
    End Function</pre>

Please help me why this error occur and how it solve.

check if simple page is running fine.
if yes the your code has issue else we'll figure out something

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