C# WebClient OpenRead url
- by Octopus-Paul
So i have this program that fetch a page using a short link (I used Google url shortener)
to build my example i used the code from Using WebClient in C# is there a way to get the URL of a site after being redirected?
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
MyWebClient client = new MyWebClient();
client.OpenRead("http://tinyurl.com/345yj7x");
Uri uri = client.ResponseUri;
Console.WriteLine(uri.AbsoluteUri);
Console.Read();
}
}
class MyWebClient : WebClient
{
Uri _responseUri;
public Uri ResponseUri
{
get { return _responseUri; }
}
protected override WebResponse GetWebResponse(WebRequest request)
{
WebResponse response = base.GetWebResponse(request);
_responseUri = response.ResponseUri;
return response;
}
}
}
I do not understant a thing: when i do client.OpenRead("http://tinyurl.com/345yj7x"); this downloads the page that the url points to? If this method downloads the page, I need something to get me only the url, so if there a method to get only some headers, or only the url please let me know.
