I use Http WebRequest with Vb.Net to download content. Everything is working fine, but now I have a problem:
I want to download this website which is an example for a 404 Error page with content: http://www.boris-koch.de/404seiteyeah
But then I get this Error: "Webexception - 404". And I can't read the content of the page because the response is nothing. So do you know a way how to handle it and to get the content of the 404 error page? Thanks a lot. :)
You can access the WebResponse within the WebException via the Response property. That will have the response data in. For example, in C# (the VB code would be very similar):
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string url = "http://www.boris-koch.de/404seiteyeah";
WebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(url);
try
{
using (WebResponse response = req.GetResponse())
{
Console.WriteLine("Didn't expect to get here!");
}
}
catch (WebException e)
{
WebResponse response = e.Response;
using (StreamReader reader =
new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
{
string text = reader.ReadToEnd();
Console.WriteLine(text);
}
}
}
}
