Downloading files using httprequest

Question

Is it possible to download files from a website using httprequest? I am only used to using it to get source code of a page. If there is no way to do it using httprequest, is there a way to download files using C# without having to use the webbrowser?

Edit: The answer must allow me to chose the location on the hard drive where the file will be downloaded to

Answer 1

You can absolutely use HttpRequest by getting the WebResponse and using its response stream. Alternatively, use WebClient , with its DownloadFile and DownloadData methods to make life easier.

Ultimately there's not much difference between a request which gets a binary file as a response and a request which gets some HTML as a response. In some ways a binary response is easier to deal with, as you don't need to worry about character encodings.

Answer 2

use a WebClient Class that wraps all of your needs to download data over http.

to get the source code of a page:

 WebClient client = new WebClient ();
 string src = client.DownloadString(uri);

Answer 3

This should work.

using (WebClient wc = new WebClient())
{
    wc.DownloadFile(downloadURL, fileName);
}