WebClient with more control???

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Wespen

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Is there any more convinient way to retrive HTML stream than WebClient.

Since I'm on slow connection (56K modem) I often timeout.

Is there any way to retry retriving data ? Like try/catch block ??
Or to extend timeout time??

1 more thing,
With WebClient - do I get only HTML in Response stream or Images and other data too??

Thanks
Igor
 
I'm on a 56k modem and using WebClient to download data works just fine for me, no timeouts.

You can get anything in a response stream, whatever the webserver throws out. This includes binary data.
 
Can I recive just HTML text, since I'm pharsing text I don't need binary data (images etc.) to bog down my bandwith???
 
If you use the DownloadData method on a web address, it will
download the HTML source into a byte array. It won't (at least, it
shouldn't) send out anything but the HTML.
 
what if the requested file is PHP, I'm useing such a code, which download html with no time-out, and does not downoload file adressed with php (time-out is every time) What shell I use then...
 
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