How read HTML contents into a string?

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VB Programmer - 20 Feb 2006 02:15 GMT

I have an HTML file that I want to read on the fly and insert the contents
into a string (for the body of an email.) How can I do this?

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Lau Lei Cheong - 20 Feb 2006 02:21 GMT

If the HTML file is located on your server, just read it as ordinary text
file and perform string.Replace() on the placeholders
you reserved.

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>I have an HTML file that I want to read on the fly and insert the contents
>into a string (for the body of an email.) How can I do this?

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VB Programmer - 20 Feb 2006 02:37 GMT

I wrote a function which reads it ok. (See below)

The only probelm is that the HTML shows up in the email message with the raw
code, even though I set IsBodyHtml to true. Any ideas?

Here's the code to read the html...

Private Function ReadHtmlPage(ByVal url As String) As String

Dim file As String = Server.MapPath(url)

Dim sr As System.IO.StreamReader

Dim fi As New System.IO.FileInfo(file)

Dim strContents As String = ""

If System.IO.File.Exists(file) Then

sr = System.IO.File.OpenText(file)

strContents += Server.HtmlEncode(sr.ReadToEnd())

sr.Close()

End If

Return strContents

End Function

> If the HTML file is located on your server, just read it as ordinary text
> file and perform string.Replace() on the placeholders
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>>I have an HTML file that I want to read on the fly and insert the contents
>>into a string (for the body of an email.) How can I do this?

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Lau Lei Cheong - 20 Feb 2006 04:56 GMT

If you can see the raw code, then the "read" part should be OK.

I believe you should post the "send" code in order for us to find out what's
wrong.

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>I wrote a function which reads it ok. (See below)
>
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>>>I have an HTML file that I want to read on the fly and insert the
>>>contents into a string (for the body of an email.) How can I do this?

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Russell - 20 Feb 2006 14:15 GMT

Try changing

strContents += Server.HtmlEncode(sr.ReadToEnd())

to

strContents += sr.ReadToEnd()

You are actually destroying your tags at that point because the HTML
encoding converts '<' to "<", '>' to ">", etc, which then appear
as literal characters in your email.

> I wrote a function which reads it ok. (See below)
>
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> >>I have an HTML file that I want to read on the fly and insert the contents
> >>into a string (for the body of an email.) How can I do this?

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VB Programmer - 20 Feb 2006 18:32 GMT

Bingo! Thanks alot Russell (and everyone else!!)

Try changing

strContents += Server.HtmlEncode(sr.ReadToEnd())

to

strContents += sr.ReadToEnd()

You are actually destroying your tags at that point because the HTML
encoding converts '<' to "<", '>' to ">", etc, which then appear
as literal characters in your email.

VB Programmer wrote:

> I wrote a function which reads it ok. (See below)
>
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> >>contents
> >>into a string (for the body of an email.) How can I do this?

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