Andrew Armstrong wrote:
6 or 7 times more code to handle a redirect? I think you're doing something
wrong.
You'd be surprised. The complete code required to pull a profile if the
redirect wasn't there would be:
string ProfileXML = WebClient.DownloadString(ProfileURL); (C#.NET,
Framework 2.0)
One line of code (not counting creating the WebClient object instance).
With the redirect as it is now, I need to add to that:
- Manually get the headers for the page at ProfileURL.
- If it's not a redirect, get the page.
- If it's a redirect, check the URL it's redirecting to for ?xml=1 at
the end.
- If that's not there, append it.
- Retrieve the resulting URL.
That's going to be at least 6 or 7 times more lines of code, including
manually handling headers (which I should never have to do, that's the
whole point of having a WebClient object with a nice tidy
"DownloadString" method).
-Dave
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