HttpWebRequest with VBNet

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I am trying to download a report off of our company website using VbNet. I have the following code:

VB

Dim hwrequest As Net.HttpWebRequest = Net.HttpWebRequest.Create("https://delph.am.mycompany.com/apps/Reports/ExportDocument11.asp?ID=826&Request=List&OpenType=Edit")
   hwrequest.CookieContainer = cookies
   hwrequest.Accept = "*/*"
   hwrequest.AllowAutoRedirect = False
   hwrequest.UserAgent = "http_requester/0.1"
   hwrequest.Timeout = 60000
   hwrequest.Method = "GET"
   Dim hwresponse As Net.HttpWebResponse = hwrequest.GetResponse()
   If hwresponse.StatusCode = Net.HttpStatusCode.OK Then
       Dim responseStream As IO.StreamReader = _
         New IO.StreamReader(hwresponse.GetResponseStream())
       responseData = responseStream.ReadToEnd()
   End If

But the Response object just returns

<head><title>Object moved</title></head>
   <body><h1>Object Moved</h1>This object may be found <a HREF="/Security/ErrorTrap.asp? 
   ErrorID=7">here</a>.</body>

and the Location header of the response returns: {X=46,Y=46} and I am not sure what that means.

Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

Posted 4-Feb-14 2:30am

jo106n

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Kschuler 4-Feb-14 13:51pm

It looks like you're hitting a web page, not a report file. Are you trying to kick of code to generate a report first or something? What exactly are you trying to retrieve?

jo106n 4-Feb-14 20:26pm

I'm trying to retrieve a report. When you run the report from the website, a new window in IE opens with the above URL. I can also see in Fiddler that the site is going to that URL and using a Get operation. Hope that clarifies. Thanks.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 4-Feb-14 20:35pm

What happens if you try to download the report using some available browser? Any difference?
—SA

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2014-02-04T15:45:00

Solution 2

The HttpWebRequest class will not follow redirects like a browser will. You have to get the actual URL of the report file, not the one you're using. What you're retrieving is a HTML page that redirects to another page.

Posted 4-Feb-14 15:45pm

Dave Kreskowiak