I built a class which uses an HttpClient instance for downloading the content of a page. This is working pretty well but I'm not really satisfied about my implementation of redirect.

In fact, I handle the redirect manually as you can see:

/// <summary>
/// Web request handler
/// </summary>
public class NetworkHelper
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Store the url.
    /// </summary>
    private static Uri _storedUrl = null;

    /// <summary>
    /// Store the html data.
    /// </summary>
    private static string _storedData = "";

    public static string GetHtml(Uri url)
    {
        if (url == _storedUrl)
            return _storedData;
        else
            _storedUrl = url;

        HttpWebRequest webReq = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);

        try
        {
            HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler();
            handler.AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.Deflate | DecompressionMethods.GZip;

            HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient(handler);

            HttpRequestMessage request = new HttpRequestMessage
            {
                RequestUri = url,
                Method = HttpMethod.Get
            };

            HttpResponseMessage response = httpClient.SendAsync(request).Result;

            int statusCode = (int)response.StatusCode;

            if (statusCode >= 300 && statusCode <= 399)
            {
                Uri redirectUri = response.Headers.Location;

                if (!redirectUri.IsAbsoluteUri)
                {
                    redirectUri = new Uri(request.RequestUri.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority) + redirectUri);
                }

                return GetHtml(redirectUri);
            }

            using (WebClient wClient = new WebClient())
            {
                wClient.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
                _storedData = wClient.DownloadString(url);
            }

            return _storedData;
        }
        catch (WebException)
        {
            throw;
        }
    }
}

How can I improve my implementation for handling the redirect?