vb.net webbrowser not accepted by a website

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Hello,

I need to navigate to

http://uae.souq.com/ae-en/nokia-6300-480117/i/

for example, but the site is not accepting the vb.net browser and it is saying I need to upgrade. A workaround was to use webkit, that worked but after many refreshes it crashes. What I am working on is a tool to monitor the products I sell online.

I tried

C#

WebBrowser1.Navigate("http://uae.souq.com/ae-en/nokia-6300-480117/i/", Nothing, Nothing, "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)")

with no luck, I also tried to just open the page in IE, but I cant seem to access the page html.

Help appreciated. <

Posted 15-May-15 5:16am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-May-15 13:26pm

Not accepting Mozilla? Blacklist this site and never get back to it.
Also, what do you mean by "WebBrowser1"? Please, it's type, full name (simple name like "WebBrowser" would be ambiguous, so please give us the full name).
—SA

Sascha Lefèvre 15-May-15 14:05pm

You might want to try it with some other user agent string of a well-known browser:
http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/useragentstring.php

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-05-15T07:29:00

Solution 1

Please see my comment to the question, which would be the best solution.
But you also can fake browser information, if you really want to, it might help you.

—SA

Posted 15-May-15 7:29am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Chamuth Chamandana · Answer 2 · 2015-05-18T04:14:00

Solution 2

Don't use the

"User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0"

Just type.

VB

WebBrowser1.Navigate("http://uae.souq.com/ae-en/nokia-6300-480117/i/")

Posted 18-May-15 4:14am

Chamuth Chamandana