Question

Can someone please tell why, when I use WebClient in C# to download a zip file, it works, unless i am trying to download http://wordpress.org/latest.zip

The zip file downloads, but when viewed with Notepad++ I can clearly see the HTML for the wordpress.org home page.

Thanks,
Ashley

Answer 1

I can’t reproduce the problem. Here’s a simple program which works fine:

using System;
using System.Net;

class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
        WebClient client = new WebClient();
        client.DownloadFile("http://wordpress.org/latest.zip",
                            "latest.zip");
    }
}

After running that, I can open latest.zip with no problems. I suspect you’re not really downloading that URL…