HttpWebResponse Unwanted Redirection

[Ford-p]

Hey,

I'm trying to get the HttpWebResponse StatusCode (e.g. 404) of a website. I have the following code that works:

    Private Function GetResponse(ByRef uriURL As Uri, Optional ByVal strUsername As String = "", Optional ByVal strPassword As String = "") As HttpWebResponse
        Dim objRequest As HttpWebRequest = CType(HttpWebRequest.Create(uriURL), HttpWebRequest)
        objRequest.Credentials = New NetworkCredential(strUsername, strPassword)

        Try
            Return CType(objRequest.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
        Catch ex As WebException
            If ex.Status = WebExceptionStatus.ProtocolError Then
                Return CType(ex.Response, HttpWebResponse)
            End If
        End Try

        Return Nothing
    End Function

This works for any response apart from 404, because my ISP (Tiscali UK) redirect 404 pages to there search page. Is there any way to get the response from the real site or am I stuck with the ISP redirection?

Hope that makes sense,
Joe

 

[JohnH]

objRequest.AllowAutoRedirect = False

now some will return 301 Moved Permanently and some will throw WebException where you can read 404 Not Found in StatusCode.

 

[Ford-p]

Perfect thanks to much!