I am AN ABSOLUTE C# NOOB, so this is my very first project. I am write a C% command line program that I input a URL it downloads images from a gallery website I frequent. 99% of the the code I have written works. My only issue is sometimes my code, when trying to get the webpage source code, sometimes the download fails. 99% of what I am doing works. This 1% sometimes makes my program crash. I am trying to find a way to make WebClient.DownloadString will retry to download the page source if there is an error. With all that said above, 99% of the code is written, and working, so I will not rewrite it from the ground up in a different version of .net. (A suggestion I saw in a discord channel dedicated to C# coding that was not helpful in the least)

This is the code I have for downloading the page source:

static string getPageSource(string url)
{
  string pageSource = "";
  WebClient client = new WebClient();

  pageSource = client.DownloadString(url);
  if(pageSource.Length == 0)
    {
    pageSource = client.DownloadString(url);
    }
  return pageSource;
}

The code itself functions as is. Just whenever it fails, the app crashes.