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WebClient.DownloadString Method

.NET Framework 2.0

Other Versions

.NET Framework 4.5
.NET Framework 4
.NET Framework 3.5
.NET Framework 3.0

Downloads the specified resource as a String or a Uri.

Overload List

Name	Description
WebClient.DownloadString (String)	Downloads the specified resource as a String.
WebClient.DownloadString (Uri)	Downloads the specified resource as a Uri.

Reference

WebClient Class
WebClient Members
System.Net Namespace

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FAQ

Download string ignores response content type

There is a small bug in WebClient.DownloadString (and UploadString, and the Async versions).

These do not use the ContentType from the response when decoding the response content (bytes) to a string. They assume that the encoding is the encoding in the request.

History

12/16/2011
Barney Hawes

4/2/2012
Thomas Lee