Webclient.DownloadString(url) not working

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Hello Team,

I tried using Webclient.DownloadString(url) in my application which always gives "The Operation has timed out" exception whereas pasting that url works fine in browser.

Could someone help me in fixing the issue.

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Vamsee

Posted 24-Dec-14 0:14am

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Tejas Vaishnav · Answer 1 · 2014-12-24T00:40:00

Have you set required headers to your Webclient?

please check below links...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19577586/webclient-downloadstring-not-returning-anything[^]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4716470/webclient-downloadstring-returns-string-with-peculiar-characters[^]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7137165/webclient-downloadstring-results-in-mangled-characters-due-to-encoding-issues-b[^]

and also check cross domain policy

Using WebClient to download string from ASP.NET Web Service Error[^]

Member 3398321 · Answer 2 · 2014-12-24T01:00:00

Solution 2

C#

public static void DownloadString (string address)
    {
        WebClient client = new WebClient ();
        string reply = client.DownloadString (address);

        Console.WriteLine (reply);
    }

C#

Posted 24-Dec-14 1:00am

Member 3398321