“too many automatic redirections were attempted” error message when using a httpWebRequest in .NET

Question

I am attempting to request a page like \"http://www.google.com/?q=random\" using the webrequest class in vb.net. we are behind a firewall, so we have to authenticate our req

Answer 1

I translated the C# that Darryl provided to VB and inserted it before the getResponse call.

Dim cookieContainer As CookieContainer = New CookieContainer()
loHttp.CookieContainer = cookieContainer
loWebResponse = loHttp.GetResponse()

Answer 2

loHttp.AllowAutoRedirect = true

Instead of this, you have to use

loHttp.AllowAutoRedirect = False

to avoid error the error

"TOO MANY AUTOMATIC REDIRECTION WERE ATTEMPTED"

Answer 3

Make sure you have a cookie container setup.

CookieContainer cookieContainer = new CookieContainer();
loHttp.CookieContainer = cookieContainer;

You are probably not saving cookies and getting caught in a redirect loop.

Answer 4

Maybe, you can individually process for each redirection by catch up Location from response and use suitable cookies.