CODEWITHSUNDEEP
c#webclient
user3092248
user3092248

Reputation: 35

WebClient can't download string

Why does this not works -

"The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly"

    static void Main()
    {
        using (var client = new WebClient())
        {
            try
            {
                Console.WriteLine(client.DownloadString("http://oz.by/books/more10176026.html"));
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {

                throw;
            }
        }
    }

Usual GET requests are OK. check it here

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1258

Answers (1)

vcsjones
vcsjones

Reputation: 141588

The server seems to choke because there is no User Agent header. This fixes it:

using (var client = new WebClient())
{
    try
    {
        //Add your user agent of choice. This is mine, just as an example.
        client.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.UserAgent, "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_1) AppleWebKit/537.73.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0.1 Safari/537.73.11");
        Console.WriteLine(client.DownloadString("http://oz.by/books/more10176026.html"));
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {

        throw;
    }
}

Upvotes: 3

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