Why when downloading html and save it as file on hard disk when editing the html file i see inside: [ Access Denied #2 ]?

Question

The code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;

namespace Battlefield_Servers_Ping
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        private string appDirectory;
        private string htmlFilesDirectory;
        private string localFilename;
        private string mainurl;
        private string[] serversip;

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            appDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.LocalUserAppDataPath);
            htmlFilesDirectory = "HtmlFilesDirectory";
            htmlFilesDirectory = Path.Combine(appDirectory, htmlFilesDirectory);

            Directory.CreateDirectory(htmlFilesDirectory + "\\Tests");
            mainurl = "http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?game=bfbc2&&num=";
            using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
            {
                for (int i = 10; i <= 100; i += 10)
                {
                    client.DownloadFile(mainurl + i, htmlFilesDirectory + "\\Tests\\" + i + ".html");
                }
            }

        }
    }
}

In the end i have on the hard disk 10 html files each one is 1kb and inside i see:

[ Access Denied #2 ]

It's not a problem with saving the files they are on the hard disk in the directory i wanted. Could a problem with the site ?

The variable htmlFilesDirectory is:

C:\\Users\\bout0_000\\AppData\\Local\\Tests\\Tests\\HtmlFilesDirectory

The webpage source is:

http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?game=bfbc2&&num=10

If im in the broswer chrome in this page on empty place make save as i can save the html file no problems. And also edit it later. When im doing save as the name of the file is:

Battlefield Bad Company 2 Servers   Server   Player Search   Game-Monitor.com    Server Search, Monitoring, Stats and more

But in my program im saving it diffrenet. The address is different.

Where are you saving the files? What OS version are you using? — Papa, Feb 26 '14 at 23:32

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 26 '14 at 23:48

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Ah I see. You can't save a file like that from another domain.

What you need to do is request the HTML into a stream and save it to file.

Try using WebRequest: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webrequest(v=vs.110).aspx

answered Feb 26 '14 at 23:48

Papa

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It's not working. Maybe you can try my code and see it. The content of the downloaded html file is [ Access Denied #2 ]. – user3200169 Feb 27 '14 at 00:24

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

It seems that the website is blocking request except from browser. To confirm, you can try to use DownloadString method, that will return content of the web page as string :

var result = client.DownloadString(mainurl + i);

Put breakpoint there, and you'll see "[ Access Denied #2 ]" instead of html content like seen in browser.

There is no instant workaround for this limitation. You may want to try to follow this post :

How can I emulate a web browser http request from code?

to emulate request that sent to the website from your web browser.

Why when downloading html and save it as file on hard disk when editing the html file i see inside: [ Access Denied #2 ]?

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