Using System.Net.WebClient and no cache

[Fenster]

I've written a script to grab a web page but I need to ensure the page
is not cached and test.html is the latest version:

$url = "http://www.example.com/test.html"
$webClient = new-object System.Net.WebClient
$output = $webClient.DownloadString($url)

I see that System.Net.WebClient has a CachePolicy property, but I
don't really know how to implement it in this example. Any ideas?

[PaulChavez]

Try this:

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Net.Cache")
$policy = new-object System.Net.Cache.RequestCachePolicy("BypassCache")

and then you can set the CachePolicy property to the $policy object.

-Paul

[Fenster]

Not sure if I'm doing this right, but it keeps pulling the cached
version, this is what I've done:

$url = "http://www.weatheroffice.com/scripts/nphshowarf.pl?
html&1010.txt"

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Net.Cache")
$policy = new-object
System.Net.Cache.RequestCachePolicy("BypassCache")

$webClient = new-object System.Net.WebClient
$webclient.CachePolicy.($policy)

$output = $webClient.DownloadString($url)
$webClient.Headers.Add("user-agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE
5.5; Windows NT 5.0)")

On Oct 7, 5:59 pm, PaulChavez <PaulCha...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

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[PaulChavez]

I was taking an educated guess at which enumeration to use from this page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.cache.requestcachelevel(VS.80).aspx

You may want to experiment with these cache levels a bit.

Paul