Calling web service from ASP.Net fails while URI works fine on the browser

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Hi,

I am trying to call a web service on my client's web server to retrieve XML data. I use HttpWebRequest to call the web service. In the response, I get data in text/html type as my request fails and the client web server is redirecting me to their general web page. I'm guessing that my request is ending up with 4XX error from the web server behaviour (redirect). The thing is that I can actually get the correct response if I just cut and paste the URI that I'm using to create the HttpWebRequest object directly to the browswer. It is failing when I call it from my ASP.Net code. I'm not sure what I'm missing as it is a very simple code. By the way, I'm not able to use the way of adding a reference of a web service to the project and using the web service as an object because of our client side reason, so I have to use HttpWebRequest.

Here is my code.

objRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create(strURI)
objRequest.Method = "GET"
objResponse = objRequest.GetResponse()
objReader = New StreamReader(objResponse.GetResponseStream())
strXML = objReader.ReadToEnd()
objXML = New XmlDocument()
objXML.LoadXml(strXML)
objXML.Save("C:\TEMP\Test.xml")

Thanks in advance.