Selenium: download file in Internet Explorer to specified folder without direct link, without Windows Forms, without AutoIt or Robot

Method DownloadFileIexplore will download file to the specified filePath (folder + filename), e.g. DownloadFileExplore(“C:\my_folder\report.xslx”)

    public void DownloadFileIexplore(string filePath)
    {
        //Click the link.
        //Simple click can be used instead, but in my case it didn't work for all the links, so i've replaced it with click via action: 
        new Actions(Browser.Driver).MoveToElement(Element).Click(Element).Perform();

        //Different types of element can be used to download file.
        //If the element contains direct link, it can be extracter from 'href' attribute.
        //If the element doesn't contains href or it's just an javascript command, link will be extracted from the browser http requests.
        //
        string downloadUrlOrLink = Element.GetAttribute("href") != null && !Element.GetAttribute("href").Contains("javascript")
            ? Element.GetAttribute("href")
            : GetRequestUrls().Last() ?? GetLinkInNewWindowIexplore();
        if (downloadUrlOrLink == null)
        {
            throw Log.Exception("Download url cannot be read from the element href attribute and from the recent http requests.");
        }

        /// the last step is to download file using CookieWebClient
        /// method DownloadFile is available in the System.Net.WebClient, 
        /// but we have to create new class CookieWebClient, that will be inherited from System.Net.WebClient with one overriden method
        new CookieWebClient(GetCookies()).DownloadFile(downloadUrlOrLink, filePath);
    }


    /// <summary>
    /// this method returns all the http requests sent from browser.
    /// the latest requests was send when link (or button) was clicked to download file
    /// so we will need just to get last element from list: GetRequestUrls().Last().
    /// or, if the request for file downloading isn't the last, find the required request by part of url, in my case it was 'common/handler', e.g.:
    /// GetRequestUrls().LastOrDefault(x => x.Contains("common/handler")) 
    /// <summary>
    public List<string> GetRequestUrls()
    {
        ReadOnlyCollection<object> requestsUrls = (ReadOnlyCollection<object>) 
            Driver.ExecuteScript("return window.performance.getEntries().map(function(x) { return x.name });");
        return requestsUrls.Select(x => (string) x).ToList();
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// In some cases after clicking the Download button new window is opened in IE.
    /// Driver.WindowHandles can return only one window instead of two.
    /// To solve this problem reset IE security settings and set Enable Protected Mode for each zone.
    /// </summary>
    private string GetLinkInNewWindowIexplore()
    {
        /// here it would be better to add waiting till new window is opened.
        /// in that case we have to calculate number of windows before click and send this number as argument to GetLinkInNewWindowIexplore()
        /// and wait till number will be increased by 1 
        var availableWindows = Driver.WindowHandles;
        if (availableWindows.Count > 1)
        {
            Driver.SwitchTo().Window(availableWindows[availableWindows.Count - 1]);
        }
        string url;
        try
        {
            url = Driver.Url;
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {
            url = Driver.ExecuteScript("return document.URL;").ToString();
        }
        Driver.SwitchTo().Window(Driver.WindowHandles[0]);
        return url;
    }

    public System.Net.CookieContainer GetCookies()
    {
        CookieContainer cookieContainer = new CookieContainer();
        foreach (OpenQA.Selenium.Cookie cookie in Driver.Manage().Cookies.AllCookies)
        {
            cookieContainer.Add(new System.Net.Cookie
            {
                Name = cookie.Name,
                Value = cookie.Value,
                Domain = "domain of your site, you can find, track http requests send from your site in browser dev tools, tab Network"
            });
        }
        return cookieContainer;
    }


public class CookieWebClient : WebClient
{
    private readonly CookieContainer _cookieContainer;

    public CookieWebClient(CookieContainer cookieContainer)
    {
        _cookieContainer = cookieContainer;
    }

    /// it's necessary to override method to add cookies, because file cannot be download by non-authorized user
    /// ServerCertificateValidationCallback is set to true to avoid some possible certificate errors
    protected override WebRequest GetWebRequest(Uri address)
    {
        ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = delegate { return true; };
        WebRequest request = base.GetWebRequest(address);
        HttpWebRequest webRequest = request as HttpWebRequest;
        if (webRequest != null)
        {
            webRequest.CookieContainer = _cookieContainer;
        }
        return request;
    }
}