objWebClient.DownloadData - The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request.

There are two production servers. It works on one and not the other. So I'm thinking one must have a different setting.

            Dim objWebClient As New WebClient()
            Dim objUTF8 As New UTF8Encoding()
            Dim strOutput As String = objUTF8.GetString(objWebClient.DownloadData(strUrl))

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I am using this to scrape a screen, and it works fine locally and on my development site, but on my production site it errors with the message:

The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request.

Is there some setting in IIS6 that blocks use of this type of method?

I need to receive the file as a string so that I can edit the relative paths to the style sheets so they can be opened from an email attachment.


I tried this method, but it doesn't give me a string to manipulate. I haven't yet tested it on the production website, so it may not work either.

            Dim myHttpWebRequest As System.Net.HttpWebRequest = CType(System.Net.WebRequest.Create(strUrl), System.Net.HttpWebRequest)
            Dim myHttpWebResponse As System.Net.HttpWebResponse = CType(myHttpWebRequest.GetResponse(), System.Net.HttpWebResponse)
            Dim receiveStream As Stream = myHttpWebResponse.GetResponseStream()
            Dim encode As Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("utf-8")
            Dim readStream As New StreamReader(receiveStream, encode)
            Dim fs As New FileStream(UniquefileName, FileMode.Create)
            Dim BWriter As New BinaryWriter(fs, Encoding.GetEncoding("UTF-8"))
            BWriter.Write(readStream.ReadToEnd())
            readStream.Close()
            BWriter.Close()
            fs.Close()
            myHttpWebResponse.Close()

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Any ideas how to receive the above string value before writing?