Saving a (possibly binary) file from a URL in C#

Need a quick way to save a file (.PDF, .JPG, .ZIP, etc.) to disk from a URL?  Try this little bit of code:

public static bool SaveFileFromURL(string url, string destinationFileName, int timeoutInSeconds)
{
    // Create a web request to the URL
    HttpWebRequest MyRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
    MyRequest.Timeout = timeoutInSeconds * 1000;
    try
    {
        // Get the web response
        HttpWebResponse MyResponse = (HttpWebResponse)MyRequest.GetResponse();

        // Make sure the response is valid
        if (HttpStatusCode.OK == MyResponse.StatusCode)
        {
            // Open the response stream
            using (Stream MyResponseStream = MyResponse.GetResponseStream())
            {
                // Open the destination file
                using (FileStream MyFileStream = new FileStream(destinationFileName, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write))
                {
                    // Create a 4K buffer to chunk the file
                    byte[] MyBuffer = new byte[4096];
                    int BytesRead;
                    // Read the chunk of the web response into the buffer
                    while (0 < (BytesRead = MyResponseStream.Read(MyBuffer, 0, MyBuffer.Length)))
                    {
                        // Write the chunk from the buffer to the file
                        MyFileStream.Write(MyBuffer, 0, BytesRead);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
    catch (Exception err)
    {
        throw new Exception("Error saving file from URL:" + err.Message, err);
    }
    return true;
}

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