On Aug 3, 9:23 pm, DouglasG <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> "Unable to download staticmap from maps.google.com. Unable to open
> this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot
> be found"

That's an extremely unhelpful error message, which gives no useful
information at all!

If maps.google.com is available and can be found by a browser, then it
could be
- your app isn't reaching the internet (firewall, socket error,
whatever)
- Google is rejecting your request based on user-agent or referer, and
closing the connection
- some other reason

I suggest coding a simple web page which contains a little text and
the required <img> element, hosting that somewhere and pointing your
app at that webpage. If that works, then depending on the Javascript
capabilities of your WebBrowser control, you could use a querystring
and construct the <img> tag dynamically within the web page, or use a
server-side script to create the page with the correct <img> tag in
it. If the text is displayed by your control but not the image, it's
getting the page successfully so Google must be objecting to the user-
agent (since a referer header of your web page would be supplied in
that request).

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