HttpWebRequest.MaximumAutomaticRedirections Property
.NET Framework 4.5
Gets or sets the maximum number of redirects that the request follows.
Namespace: System.Net
Assembly: System (in System.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.Int32The maximum number of redirection responses that the request follows. The default value is 50.
| Exception | Condition |
|---|---|
| ArgumentException | The value is set to 0 or less. |
The MaximumAutomaticRedirections property sets the maximum number of redirections for the request to follow if the AllowAutoRedirect property is true.
The following code example sets the value of this property.
using System; using System.Net; using System.Text; using System.IO; public class Test { // Specify the URL to receive the request. public static void Main (string[] args) { HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create (args[0]); // Set some reasonable limits on resources used by this request request.MaximumAutomaticRedirections = 4; request.MaximumResponseHeadersLength = 4; // Set credentials to use for this request. request.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials; HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse (); Console.WriteLine ("Content length is {0}", response.ContentLength); Console.WriteLine ("Content type is {0}", response.ContentType); // Get the stream associated with the response. Stream receiveStream = response.GetResponseStream (); // Pipes the stream to a higher level stream reader with the required encoding format. StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader (receiveStream, Encoding.UTF8); Console.WriteLine ("Response stream received."); Console.WriteLine (readStream.ReadToEnd ()); response.Close (); readStream.Close (); } } /* The output from this example will vary depending on the value passed into Main but will be similar to the following: Content length is 1542 Content type is text/html; charset=utf-8 Response stream received. <html> ... </html> */
Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)
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