Get where a 301 URl redirects to

Question

I have something along the lines of:

HttpWebRequest webRequest = HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://www.google.com/");
webRequest.AllowAutoRedirect = false;
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)webRequest.GetResponse();
HttpStatusCode wRespStatusCode = new HttpStatusCode();

try
{
    response = (HttpWebResponse)webRequest.GetResponse();
    wRespStatusCode = response.StatusCode;
}
catch (WebException we)
{
    wRespStatusCode = ((HttpWebResponse)we.Response).StatusCode;
}

MessageBox.Show(wRespStatusCode.ToString());

which gets the status code of of an HTTP request.

In the case of a 301 "Moved Permanently" response, I was wondering how I might find the new URL that the request is being redirected to?

Answer 1

As indicated in the 301 status code section in the HTTP specification, look into the Location header, accessible from the HttpWebResponse.Headers property.