Saving a (possibly binary) file from a URL in C#

public static bool SaveFileFromURLSection(string url, string destinationFileName, int timeoutInSeconds)
{
// Create a web request to the URL
HttpWebRequest MyRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
MyRequest.Timeout = timeoutInSeconds * 1000;
try
{
// Get the web response
HttpWebResponse MyResponse = (HttpWebResponse)MyRequest.GetResponse();

// Make sure the response is valid
if (HttpStatusCode.OK == MyResponse.StatusCode)
{
// Open the response stream
using (Stream MyResponseStream = MyResponse.GetResponseStream())
{
// Open the destination file
using (FileStream MyFileStream = new FileStream(destinationFileName, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write))
{
// Create a 4K buffer to chunk the file
byte[] MyBuffer = new byte[4096];
int BytesRead;
// Read the chunk of the web response into the buffer
while (0 < (BytesRead = MyResponseStream.Read(MyBuffer, 0, MyBuffer.Length)))
{
// Write the chunk from the buffer to the file
MyFileStream.Write(MyBuffer, 0, BytesRead);
}
}
}
}
}
catch (Exception err)
{
throw new Exception("Error saving file from URL:" + err.Message, err);
}
return true;
}
Note : Need a quick way to save a file (.PDF, .JPG, .ZIP, etc.) to disk from a URL? Try this little bit of code:

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