Download file through code that has a redirect?

Question

I have some urls in the database. The problem is there urls are urls that redirect to what I want.

I have something like this

http://www.mytestsite.com/test/

Answer 1

I think you are after the HttpWebRequest.AllowAutoRedirect Property. The property gets or sets a value that indicates whether the request should follow redirection responses.

Example taken from MSDN

HttpWebRequest myHttpWebRequest=(HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://www.contoso.com");    
myHttpWebRequest.MaximumAutomaticRedirections=1;
myHttpWebRequest.AllowAutoRedirect=true;
HttpWebResponse myHttpWebResponse=(HttpWebResponse)myHttpWebRequest.GetResponse();