Accessing web page from C# application

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Adrian - 30 Jan 2008 10:39 GMT

How do I access a web page from a normal C# application?
Many thanks,
Adrian.

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Alberto Poblacion - 30 Jan 2008 11:15 GMT

> How do I access a web page from a normal C# application?

You can use the WebRequest or HttpWebRequest classes to send a request
for a URL to a sever and retrieve the response into your program. This
brings to you the HTML code that is normally served to browsers by the web
server.

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Adrian - 30 Jan 2008 14:35 GMT

Thank you Alberto, Adrian

>> How do I access a web page from a normal C# application?
>
> You can use the WebRequest or HttpWebRequest classes to send a request
> for a URL to a sever and retrieve the response into your program. This
> brings to you the HTML code that is normally served to browsers by the web
> server.

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clintonG - 30 Jan 2008 21:33 GMT

normal?

> Thank you Alberto, Adrian
>
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>> brings to you the HTML code that is normally served to browsers by the
>> web server.

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Arne Vajhøj - 31 Jan 2008 02:15 GMT

> How do I access a web page from a normal C# application?

The easiest is probably the WebClient class.

If you need a little bit more control then (Http)WebRequest.

HttpWebRequest wr = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
string html = (new
StreamReader(wr.GetResponse().GetResponseStream())).ReadToEnd();

where the point is that you can set various properties
on the request.

Arne

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