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Downloading from a URL gives an aspx fileinstead of the file

Abhirup Ghosh

I am trying to use Selenium to open a URL in Chrome and hit a button, which will download a text file for me. But it's giving me an aspx page instead of the text file.

It's working fine if I do this manually in Chrome.
I also tried to do this with a Firefox driver but I got the same issue.

I am opening the url using driver.Navigate().GoToUrl().

Can you guys please help me on this?

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Cassie Mod9y ago
the reason is that the url of the page ends with aspx. however on that page you have a different url for downloading the file. call that url and it will work
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