This is for all of you C# .NET web developers out there. Been having todo a lot of ridiculous clean up lately which normally includes lots of offline batch processes. I found this method to be uber useful, I'm sure most of you will too.
public void StoreUrlToFile(string url, string destination, int timeout) { HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url); request.Timeout = timeout; HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse(); if (HttpStatusCode.OK == response.StatusCode) { using (Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream()) { using (FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(destination, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write)) { byte[] buffer = new byte[4096]; int bytesRead; while (0 < (bytesRead = stream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length))) { fileStream.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead); } } } } }