Exception while getting the source code of a webpage

Asked Jul 06 '17 at 15:02

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I have tried both of the following methods to get the source code of a webpage and neither were able to open the webpage. Both methods through the exception remote sever 403 forbidden

string htmlstring = String.Empty;    
WebClient wc = new WebClient();
htmlstring = wc.DownloadString(website);

and

string htmlstring = String.Empty;
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(website);
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
Stream dt = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(dt);
htmlstring = sr.ReadToEnd();

edited Jul 06 '17 at 15:14

asked Jul 06 '17 at 15:02

T.W.

Both codes should work fine. What's the problem? – jAC Jul 06 '17 at 15:06
Both are fine in a general sense, you need to state how it fails. Familiarise yourself with Fiddler and compare working browser requests with failing request made in C#. – Alex K. Jul 06 '17 at 15:06
both throw an exception – T.W. Jul 06 '17 at 15:07
Including the full content of the exception in your question would be helpful. – Jon B Jul 06 '17 at 15:08
Then you need to show the full exception thats thrown, including the accompanying stack trace – Alex K. Jul 06 '17 at 15:08
Edit your question, include the `Exception` type, stack trace and so on. Also please take a look at how to write an [mcve] – jAC Jul 06 '17 at 15:08
remote server 403 Forbidden – T.W. Jul 06 '17 at 15:12
Can you access the site in any browser? 403 is an error because you're not authenticated, you won't be able to fix that if you don't have credeantials. – RememberOfLife Jul 06 '17 at 15:13
That means you dont have permission to access the server you are trying to!. Check with any other url – Suraj S Jul 06 '17 at 15:14
Okay. Its a public website accessible on all browsers – T.W. Jul 06 '17 at 15:16
Commonly a missing user-agent header. – Alex K. Jul 06 '17 at 15:48
Can you post the value of the variable 'website' ? – Youssef13 Jul 07 '17 at 16:54

Exception while getting the source code of a webpage

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