“too many automatic redirections were attempted” error message when using a httpWebRequest in .NET

Question

I am attempting to request a page like \"http://www.google.com/?q=random\" using the webrequest class in vb.net. we are behind a firewall, so we have to authenticate our req

Answer 1

I translated the C# that Darryl provided to VB and inserted it before the getResponse call.

Dim cookieContainer As CookieContainer = New CookieContainer()
loHttp.CookieContainer = cookieContainer
loWebResponse = loHttp.GetResponse()