HttpWebRequest to pretend like a browser request?

Question

I have some code (in a Winform app) that reads this URL using HttpWebRequest.GetResponse().

For some reason, it recently starts returning 500

Answer 1

Set the HttpWebRequest.UserAgent property to the value of a real browser's user agent.

HttpWebRequest webRequest = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create("http://example.com");

webRequest.UserAgent = @"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1667.0 Safari/537.36";