C# - Getting the response body from a 403 error

Question

I\'m receiving a 403 error when requesting data from a URL. This is expected and I\'m not asking how to correct it.
When pasting this URL directly into my browser, I g

Answer 1

This worked For me..

HttpWebResponse httpResponse;
            try
            {
                httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpReq.GetResponse();
                using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpResponse.GetResponseStream()))
                {
                    result = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
                }
            }
            catch (WebException e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("This program is expected to throw WebException on successful run." +
                                    "\n\nException Message :" + e.Message);
                if (e.Status == WebExceptionStatus.ProtocolError)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Status Code : {0}", ((HttpWebResponse)e.Response).StatusCode);
                    Console.WriteLine("Status Description : {0}", ((HttpWebResponse)e.Response).StatusDescription);
                    using (Stream data = e.Response.GetResponseStream())
                    using (var reader = new StreamReader(data))
                    {
                        string text = reader.ReadToEnd();
                        Console.WriteLine(text);
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
            }

Answer 2

You're looking for the WebException.Response property:

catch(WebException ex)
{
     var response = (HttpWebResponse)ex.Response;
}