How to check if System.Net.WebClient.DownloadData is downloading a binary file?

Question

I am trying to use WebClient to download a file from web using a WinForms application. However, I really only want to download HTML file. Any other type I will

Answer 1

WebResponse is an abstract class and the ContentType property is defined in inheriting classes. For instance in the HttpWebRequest object this method is overloaded to provide the content-type header. I'm not sure what instance of WebResponse the WebClient is using. If you ONLY want HTML files, your best of using the HttpWebRequest object directly.