URL File Downloader for .NET Updates

• 2007-08-16
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It’s been a while since I wrote the first version of my FileDownloader article and class. Since that time, there have been a lot of positive comments about the article and a handful of feature requests. I finally made the time to update the classes and the article and resubmit it to The Code Project. This update has the following new methods and properties:

• BlockSize Gets or sets the download block size in Kilobytes (KB).
• DownloadHtml Gets or sets a value indicating if HTML pages should be allowed to be downloaded.
• IndefiniteTimeout Gets a value that represents an indefinite timeout for a synchronous download operation.
• IsBusy Gets a value indicating whether the FileDownloader is running an asynchronous operation.
• Overwrite Gets or sets a value indicating if the existing file should be overwritten.
• PreAuthenticate Indicates whether to pre-authenticate the request.
• Timeout Gets or sets a value indicating the timeout for asynchronous download operations.
• DownloadAsync Begin downloading the file at the specified URL, and save it to the current folder.
• DownloadAsyncCancel Cancel the current download operation.
• GetLastModifiedDate Retrieves the last modified date of the file at the specified URL.

There is another update pending (it has been submitted, but just needs to go through the editing queue) that adds the following property:

• UserAgent Gets or sets the value of the User-agent HTTP header.