Good approach to calling Urls remotely?

[Jim Bancroft]

Hi,

I'm porting a web app from VB6 to C#, and one of the things the old
application did was call a few outside web pages (using http) and act on the
response stream. Is there a reccomended way to remotely call a URL in .Net,
a framework class maybe that's best geared toward this? Thanks very much.

-Jim

 

[Lucas Tam]

Is there a reccomended way to remotely call a URL in .Net,
a framework class maybe that's best geared toward this?

Yes, here you go:

http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/122204-1.aspx

 

[Guest]

WebClient client = new WebClient();
Stream instream = client.OpenRead(URI);
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(instream);
Debug.Write(reader.ReadToEnd());

or

byte[] bytes = client.DownloadData(URI);