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Download text or bytes via HTTP

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Downloads contents as a byte array or string, depending on need.

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namespace VK.Snippets
{
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.IO;
    using System.Net;
    using System.Text;
 
    public static class HttpFetcher
    {
        public static string FetchPage(string url, string username = "", string password = "", string domain = "")
        {
            string page = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(FetchContent(url, username, password, domain));
 
            return page;
        }
 
        public static byte[] FetchContent(string url, string username = "", string password = "", string domain = "")
        {
            List<byte> contentBytes = new List<byte>();
 
            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(url);
            if (username != "" && password != "" && domain != "")
            {
                request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password, domain);
            }
 
            HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
            if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK)
            {
                Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();
 
                int b;
                while ((b = responseStream.ReadByte()) != -1)
                {
                    contentBytes.Add((byte)b);
                }
            }
 
            return contentBytes.ToArray();
        }
    }
}