WebClient problem with URL which ends with a period

Question

I\'m running the following code;

using (WebClient wc = new WebClient())
{
    string page = wc.DownloadString(URL);
    ...
}

To access the URL

Answer 1

Try adding a slash to the end, after the period. Your normal web browser will do that for you, and the WebClient class isn't that smart.

http://www.shareprice.co.uk/TW./

This worked for me as well when I typed it into the browser.

Edit - added

The following all also worked in the browser

http://www.shareprice.co.uk/TW

and

http://www.shareprice.co.uk/TW/

so it looks like you should be able to just check to see if the last character is a period, and remove it.