title: System.Net.WebClient DownloadFile not making HTTP Request
body: <p>I am working on an application which is supposed to download a file at a given URL to a path. I used the code shown below which I have seen in many places.  </p>
  
  <p>I am using fiddler to monitor my connections and to troubleshoot, and I am running into an issue where Fiddler never requests the path, and I never get an error thrown (no Message box shows up).  I have set it up so I display a message box BEFORE entering this function and that works perfectly, but it appears to get stuck in this function. No error is thrown, it just seems to hang.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Public Sub DownloadFile(ByVal _URL As String, ByVal _SaveAs As String)
      Try
          Dim _WebClient As New System.Net.WebClient()
          ' Downloads the resource with the specified URI to a local file.
          _WebClient.DownloadFile(_URL, _SaveAs)
      Catch _Exception As Exception
          'Error
          MsgBox("Exception caught in process: {0}", _Exception.ToString())
      End Try
  End Sub
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does anybody have any thoughts as to why this may be happening?</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong>
  I forgot to mention that this is only happening on a test computer running SERVER 2012. It works fine on my Windows 7 Development Machine</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance,<br>
  Dan</p>