Downloading file using WebRequest

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Tedmond - 21 Oct 2007 16:53 GMT

Dear all,

Is System.Net.WebRequest the correct class that I can use for downloading
file over http? I can easily get a page contents using that class but have
no way to get a file from the web server. Can anyone give me an idea how I
can do that?

Thanks for any help,

Tedmond

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Kevin Spencer - 22 Oct 2007 11:40 GMT

An Http Request is a request for a file. When you download a page, you are
downloading a file with a .htm or similar extension.

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Kevin Spencer
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Microsoft MVP

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Tedmond - 22 Oct 2007 13:48 GMT

when I got the HttpWebResponse, how can I get the filename and save the
stream data into file?

> An Http Request is a request for a file. When you download a page, you are
> downloading a file with a .htm or similar extension.
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Kevin Spencer - 23 Oct 2007 12:23 GMT

The HttpWebResponse contains information about the file downloaded, as well
as a stream containing the contents of the file. The ResponseUri contains
the URI to the resource (file), which also includes, of course, the file
name. See the following reference for details and some examples:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebresponse.aspx

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Kevin Spencer
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Microsoft MVP

> when I got the HttpWebResponse, how can I get the filename and save the
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