Following application downloads RSS of my blog and saves it into file.
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Net; using System.IO; namespace FetchURL { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { if (!FetchURL(@"http://bansky.net/feed/blog.rss", @"D:\rss_feed.xml")) Console.WriteLine("Problems while fetching url"); } /// <summary> /// Fetch given url and stores it to the file /// </summary> /// <param name="url">URL to fetch</param> /// <param name="fileToSave">file to store the result</param> /// <returns>True if operation was successful</returns> private static bool FetchURL(string url, string fileToSave) { bool returnStatus = true; try { WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url); // Use default system proxy request.Proxy = WebRequest.DefaultWebProxy; HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse(); // Check for status code if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK) { FileStream fs = new FileStream(fileToSave, FileMode.Create); Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream(); // Read data and store them into file byte[] buffer = new byte[2048]; int count = responseStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length); while (count > 0) { fs.Write(buffer, 0, count); count = responseStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length); } responseStream.Close(); fs.Close(); } else returnStatus = false; } catch { returnStatus = false; } // return result of the operation return (returnStatus); } } }
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