WebClient 403 Forbidden

Question

I can download this by hand in IE.

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Answer 1

I had this problem trying to download an image from a SharePoint site url. In my case setting the user-agent to Other or blank in the header wasn't enough, I had to set the user-agent as follows instead:

client.Headers.Add("user-agent", " Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0");

That solution came from this answer.