Prevent WebBrowser from downloading PDF - c#

I'm trying to download some PDF's using a WebBrowser. This URL contains an iframe with the src attribute set to this other URL, which in turn has a 302 redirect to this URL, which is a PDF file.
When I visit the first URL with a WebBrowser, it downloads and opens the file using Acrobat Reader. I would like to prevent this from happening because I'd like to automate the WebBrowser to visit many of these pages programmatically and don't want a bunch of Adobe Acrobat launching all over.
I have access to the DWebBrowserEvents2 and all of its events. One of the events getting fired was NavigateError, with the URL parameter pointing to the PDF file. I tried setting cancel to true, but the file was still being downloaded.
Is there any other way I can programmatically cancel the download?

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