How do I programmatically request a URL in ASP.NET?

Question

I would like the server to call a URL (an ashx page) programmatically and store the response as a string. Using HttpWebRequest doesn't seem like it will work properly because I do not want to redirect the client there. Thanks.

Accepted Answer

If you want to call another page and get the response back as string, you can use `WebClient` class.

```
var myWebClient = new WebClient();
string resultStr = myWebClient.DownloadString("http://www.google.com");
```

How do I programmatically request a URL in ASP.NET?

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