I am trying to automate the download of several PDF documents from a secure website that requires a login. The website uses https and requires a login (which of course I have).
When I try to make WebRequest GetResponse calls it fails with a 401 error - Requires Authentication - even though I can navigate to the PDF form using the WebBrowser1.Navigate("[URL
https://www.theirsite.com/
I have tried the following to get this working:
Dim oDownload As New System.Net.WebClient
URLReq.Credentials = New NetworkCredential("MYUSERN
oDownload.DownloadFile(htt
When setting the Credentials, I used the "wb1.Document.Domain.ToStr
oDownload.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache
...but this too did not work. Same "401" error.
One idea I tried was to actually one by one navigate to the link for each document and then when the browser loads the form (within an Adobe Reader frame) programmatically do a "Save As" to save the form to disk. EXCEPT - I then cannot get a handle on the Adobe Reader frame within that webbrowser control to do the Save As . If I execute the following:
WebBrowser1.Navigate("http
...then the PDF file opens up within WebBrowser1 - but then I cannot figure out how to get the file out of the WebBrowser (manually, I would simply hit the save button in the WebBrowser's Adobe Reader toolbar, but I am trying to automate this to not require user input).
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Try this experiment. First, use the URL described above in the webbrowser control and handle the document completed event. Check what URL is being completed (i think it would be directly pointing to the PDF file). Also try the documentstream property after the document is completed and being displayed in the webbrowser as a PDF. Try to save this stream
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by: 1dot44mbPosted on 2009-11-11 at 00:27:40ID: 25793153
Hi,
Maybe you tried but;
Did you realize that you are giving the credentials to a different object rather then oDownload?
Try:
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