Look at wwIPStuff from West Wind. I found it very easy to use and very reliable in the situation I use it for. I use it in an app to automatically transfer source code, very early in the morning, from multiple locations to a single site for backup.

>Hi,
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>I would like to be able for my application to go to a particular URL and download a file without any user interaction. Could someone lead me in the right direction as to what would be the best technique to accomplish this?
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>Thanks in advance.