C# WebClient, Only Support HTML3.2

Question

I need to call a webpage, but have my webclient act like it doesn't support HTML4.0, but only HTML3.2.

Is it possible to do this? Perhaps with a different user-agent or some header I'm unaware of?

Thanks.

This is related to this problem:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3662457/ssrs-2008-force-html3-2

Answer 1

The WebClient Class implements HTTP. It contains nothing related to HTML.

If the website you're retrieving serves different content depending on the HTTP "User-Agent" header, you can set this header as follows:

WebClient client = new WebClient();

client.Headers.Add("user-agent",
    "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.0.3705;)");

Which value you need to specify depends, of course, on the website.

Answer 2

WebClient has no notion of what kind of HTML it is downloading. If the site you're accessing is doing some sort of sniffing, use HttpWebRequest and set the UserAgent property to some really old browser.

You can set the User-Agent header using WebClient as well, but you have to set the header directly as there's no associated property.