How to download a simple text file?

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As I bass and catch the String contained in an online file on Windows Phone 8.1 SDK?

Talk more about this online file, is ftp, is an html page

– Roberto Araujo

2016/02/04 at 01:09
It is an FTP file, but can be accessed via HTML.

– CypherPotato

2016/02/04 at 01:46

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by ruiperes • 99 points · Answer 1 · 2016-02-19T14:43:56+00:00

You can do it like this:

private async Task<string> DownloadAndReadFile(string url)
{
    HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
    return await client.GetStringAsync(url);
}