Question

I need to call a webpage, but have my webclient act like it doesn’t support HTML4.0, but only HTML3.2.

Is it possible to do this? Perhaps with a different user-agent or some header I’m unaware of?

Thanks.

This is related to this problem:

SSRS 2008, Force HTML3.2

Answer 1

The WebClient Class implements HTTP. It contains nothing related to HTML.

If the website you’re retrieving serves different content depending on the HTTP “User-Agent” header, you can set this header as follows:

WebClient client = new WebClient();

client.Headers.Add("user-agent",
    "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.0.3705;)");

Which value you need to specify depends, of course, on the website.