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Make HTTP Requests from .NET Application

Summary: Make HTTP requests fron .NET applications quickly and easily using this shared/static function.
 
Keywords: GET
HTTP
POST
REQUEST
WEBCLIENT
Applicable Software: Active Server Pages .NET (ASP.NET)
Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET)
 
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There are many occassions where you need to make HTTP calls from applications. The .NET framework has built-in support for doing this and this is a quick & simple class for doing that. Note, the routine is very slim on error handling (it just ignores them) - but the idea's there. 

Public Shared Function GetHttpResponse(ByVal address As String) As String

	Dim wc As WebClient = New WebClient()
	Dim buffer As Byte()
	Dim response As String = ""
		
		Try
			buffer = wc.DownloadData(address)

			response = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buffer)
		Catch x As Exception
			'do nothing
		End Try

		Return response

End Function

To use it, you would do: 

Dim webpage As String = GetHttpResponse("http://www.27seconds.com/kb/article_view.aspx?id=59")

 
Author: Douglas L. Setzer, II, http://www.27seconds.com
Posted On: 12/21/2005 2:20:58 PM

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