Question

I am trying to connect to a secure webDAV folder and download a file. I am having problems just trying to get a response from the server and as it keeps giving me a 404 Not Found error as soon as I call Request.GetResponse(). I can connect to the webDAV folder using Windows Explorer by mapping a drive but cannot seem to do this in code. I have looked at other post on this site and others online but most seem to concentrate on connecting to Outlook. Has anybody else had this issue? The code I am using is as follows:

string URI = "https://transfer.mycompany.com/myDirectory/myFile.csv";
string username = "username";
string password = "password";
Request = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(URI);
Request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password);
Request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Http.Get;
Request.Headers.Add("Translate", "f");
Response = (HttpWebResponse) Request.GetResponse();
contentLength = Convert.ToInt64(Response.GetResponseHeader("Content-Length"));

Answer 1

Use the Fiddler tool to see what else headers are sent to the server, when you access it from Windows Explorer. Try adding these headers to your code to make it more similar to the request sent by WindowsExplorer and see if this helps.