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C# C# Streams and Data Processing Streaming Data on the Net WebClient

Kevin Gates
Kevin Gates
15,052 Points

Retrieving Google's Site returns a 503 (use Bing)

I'm not sure why, but if you have this: byte[] googleHome = webClient.DownloadData("https://www.google.com");

It won't work, and you'll get an Error: System.Net.WebException: 'The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable.'

If you update that to: byte[] bingHome= webClient.DownloadData("https://www.bing.com");

Then it works as anticipated.

Kevin Gates
Kevin Gates
15,052 Points

FYI, if you're going to use bing, I suggest updating the Method and the variables to have "Bing" in the titles instead of Google.

I get the error

System.Net.WebException: 'The remote name could not be resolve: 'www.bing.com"

1 Answer

Kevin Gates
Kevin Gates
15,052 Points

Christian Higgins : add the http protocol "https://www.bing.com"