Handling two WebException's properly

Question

I am trying to handle two different WebException\'s properly.

Basically they are handled after calling WebClient.DownloadFile(string address, str

Answer 1

Based on this MSDN article, you could do something along the following lines:

try
{
    // try to download file here
}
catch (WebException ex)
{
    if (ex.Status == WebExceptionStatus.ProtocolError)
    {
        if (((HttpWebResponse)ex.Response).StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.NotFound)
        {
            // handle the 404 here
        }
    }
    else if (ex.Status == WebExceptionStatus.NameResolutionFailure)
    {
        // handle name resolution failure
    }
}

I'm not certain that WebExceptionStatus.NameResolutionFailure is the error you are seeing, but you can examine the exception that is thrown and determine what the WebExceptionStatus for that error is.