Comments on: Read a Web Page in C#

By: israeli guy

israeli guy — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:32:48 +0000

Thanks a bunch man you helped me a lot with that simple example i appreciate it !

israeli guy

By: George

George — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:07:23 +0000

@denny: The code above will do it for you. Just replace the url string literal, such as:

string url = "http://www.mywebsite.com/xyz.txt";

By: denny

denny — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:32:46 +0000

hello

Can I place a text file (xyz.txt) in my own url
and then whereever I go I can download it into string[] using c# ?
can u suggest the code ?

By: Eamon Nerbonne

Eamon Nerbonne — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:53:01 +0000

I know this is a somewhat old post, but nevertheless…

I always strongly suggest avoiding WebClient for everything but one-time-only scripting usage. WebClient is unfortunately not properly encoding-aware, and it trashes the relevant HTTP headers so you cannot manually determine the correct encoding should it fail. Essentially, when WebClient doesn't find an encoding specified as a charset, it uses your local system's default codepage, which is generally not what you want.

To avoid potential data-corruption issues, I'd avoid it.

By: Andy Bruce

Andy Bruce — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:31:27 +0000

Please–remember that if an object supports IDisposable you should *always* invoke Dispose. Since that's not convenient, instead wrap the code in using block like this:

Uri target = new Uri(LocalTestPagesFullURL + "/" + relative_path);
LH.info("Running test for ", target);
using (System.Net.WebClient client = new System.Net.WebClient())
{
byte[] data = client.DownloadData(target);
} //using

Don't think you need to do this? Keep writing code, you'll find out for yourself at 2am…

By: Athan

Athan — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:56:59 +0000

Sorry

By: John

John — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:07:01 +0000

You can also add headers in both WebClient and HttpWebRequest. Take a look at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webclient.aspx and http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest.headers(VS.85).aspx