Re: WebClient - detect response redirect

From: Adam Clauss (cabadam_at_nospam.tamu.edu)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:39:32 -0600

I don't think there is a way using the WebClient class.

If you are using HttpWebRequest, there is the AllowAutoRedirect property
which may allow you to accomplish what you need. 

-- 
Adam Clauss
cabadam@tamu.edu
"Glen" <BuGlen@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:u4HTxXF%23EHA.3756@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> I'm writing a console utility to download specific files from web sites 
> based on the command line options.  In most cases, I can trap the 404 
> error when the file isn't available because the operator mistyped the URL 
> or it's offline for whatever reason.  The problem I'm running into is with 
> certain sites where the admin has set up a redirect to handle the 404 
> condition and redirects the request to another page.
>
> In this case, the redirected page gets downloaded and saved which is not 
> the desired result.  This utility is being used in a scheduling process to 
> download and process specific data files from public web sites and the 
> files must exist, or return an error to halt processing.
>
> Is there anyway to tell the WebClient or WebRequest objects to not allow 
> redirected content?  Or, is there a property in either of the objects that 
> reflects the actual URL of the source when it's redirected?  Or, is there 
> an alternative object that can be used for this purpose to download files 
> from web sites?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> - Glen

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