Merge pull request #2 from SyncfusionExamples/download_image

Set the User-Agent header to mimic a request from a browser
SyncfusionExamples · Aug 22, 2024 · 5bfc7b3 · 5bfc7b3
2 parents 7428e42 + c72facb
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diff --git a/Controllers/HomeController.cs b/Controllers/HomeController.cs
@@ -187,6 +187,8 @@ public static Stream DownloadImage(string url)
         {
             using (WebClient client = new())
             {
+				// Set the User-Agent header to mimic a request from a browser
+				client.Headers.Add("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36");
                 byte[] imageBytes = client.DownloadData(url);
                 return new MemoryStream(imageBytes);
             }

diff --git a/Views/Home/Index.cshtml b/Views/Home/Index.cshtml
@@ -7,16 +7,16 @@
 @{Html.BeginForm("ExportToPDF", "Home", FormMethod.Post);
     {
         <h6>Enter the Blog URL</h6>
-        @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.BlogLink, new { style = "margin-bottom: 20px;" })
+        @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.BlogLink, new { style = "margin-bottom: 20px; width: 52%;" })
 
         <h6>Enter the Blog Title</h6>
-        @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.HeaderText, new { style = "margin-bottom: 20px;" })
+        @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.HeaderText, new { style = "margin-bottom: 20px; width: 52%;" })
 
         <h6>Enter the Blog Ad Image URL</h6>
-        @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.ImageURL, new { style = "margin-bottom: 20px;" })
+        @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.ImageURL, new { style = "margin-bottom: 20px; width: 52%;" })
 
         <h6>Enter the Download URL</h6>
-        @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.AdURL, new { style = "margin-bottom: 20px;" })
+        @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.AdURL, new { style = "margin-bottom: 20px; width: 52%;" })
 
         <div>
             <input type="submit" value="Convert HTML to PDF" style="width:200px;height:27px" />