WebClient Exception - "Cannot handle redirect from HTTP/HTTPS protocols to other dissimalr ones"

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Hi All!<br/><br/>Im writing an app, that retrieves information from 2 betting websites. The exception Im getting is "Cannot handle redirect from HTTP/HTTPS protocols to other dissimalr ones".<br/><br/>When I try the first website, there is no problem. But when I try the second website, I get the above exception. Ive checked out MSDN ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webclient.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webclient.aspx ), and it says that "<span>AllowAutoRedirect is set to true in <span><span class=selflink> WebClient instances" (although, I cannot see this property as one of the WebClients members).<br/><br/>Ive also looked around the net but cant find anything concrete about this exception (including MSDN). Is anyone able to help at all... I really hope so.<br/><br/>Ill put the code here, but as I said, it works fine for one address and not the other, so i dont think its a code thing. I just want to know what the exception means, and what I can do about it!<br/><br/>
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<pre>WebClient wcScraper = <span style="color:blue new WebClient();



<span style="color:blue byte[] reqHTML;



<span style="color:blue string strUrl = tbAddress.Text;



reqHTML = wcScraper.DownloadData(strUrl);







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Many thanks in advance.<br/><br/>Cheers, TS

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