The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.

Question

I am running this piece of code to get the source code (as string) of my webpage.

The problem is why this function returns 404 error?

Private Function getPageSource(ByVal URL As String) As String
    Dim webClient As New System.Net.WebClient()
    Dim strSource As String = webClient.DownloadString(URL)
    webClient.Dispose()
    Return strSource
End Function

Answer 1

Try this

using System; using System.IO; using System.Net; using System.Text;

public static void GetFile 
        ( 
        string strURL, 
        string strFilePath 
        ) 
    { 

        WebRequest myWebRequest = WebRequest.Create(strURL);  

        WebResponse myWebResponse = myWebRequest.GetResponse();  

        Stream ReceiveStream = myWebResponse.GetResponseStream(); 

        Encoding encode = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("utf-8"); 

        StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader( ReceiveStream, encode ); 

        string strResponse=readStream.ReadToEnd(); 

        StreamWriter oSw=new StreamWriter(strFilePath); 

        oSw.WriteLine(strResponse); 

        oSw.Close(); 

        readStream.Close(); 

        myWebResponse.Close(); 

    } 

Answer 2

Hi There,

Has anyone got answer for this. It is annoying and looks like some platform issue which is not allowing the response to come through.

Thanks, Nimesh