Reading website content vb.net

Hi,

I want the content(text) of the following site in a string so I can then use ''string.indexof(name) > 0'' to see if names are on the website.

I have tried many ways to get this text in a string but all gave me unknown characters which I cannot work with.
I know the website is encoded in ISO-8859-1 (windows-1252)...
I tried webclient(), stringbuilder(), httpwebrequest() but now I'm out of ideas.
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/6962/59238991.jpg
and
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/9538/45143978.jpg

I used the following code on a UTF-8 encoded site but this doesnt work on the ISO-8859-1 (windows-1252) site...

Dim

request As

System.Net.HttpWebRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create("http://www.google.com"

)
Dim

response As

System.Net.HttpWebResponse = request4.GetResponse()
Dim

sr As

System.IO.StreamReader = New

System.IO.StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream( ))

String

= sr.ReadToEnd()



I hope somebody knows a method to get this website's text in a string, thanks

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Shaalini.S
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Hi,

See if you have better luck using the System.Net.WebClient object and its DownloadString method. That will put the contents directly in a string so you will not have to worry about encodings, streams, and readers.

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A.Rajesh Khanna

Hi,


See if you have better luck using the System.Net.WebClient object and its DownloadString method. That will put the contents directly in a string so you will not have to worry about encodings, streams, and readers.

Public
Shared
Sub
DownloadString(ByVal
address As
String
)

Dim
client As
WebClient = New
WebClient()
Dim
reply As
String
= client.DownloadString(address)

MsgBox(reply)
End
Sub


Private
Sub
Button8_Click(ByVal
sender As
System.Object, ByVal
e As
System.EventArgs) Handles
Button8.Click
Call
DownloadString("http://www.google.com"
)
End
Sub


Like this? This still gives same three unreadable characters in the messagebox What am I doing wrong ?

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Shaalini.S
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Hi,

Basically, we discuss Code Analysis and Code Metrics issues in our forum, hence, Windows Forms Forum might be your better choice.

Based on my understanding, you want to get the content of the specific URL and want it displayed in a MessageBox, right?
Would you please try the code snippet below and see if it is want you want? (Instead a message box, I used a RichTextBox control.)

string url = "http://www.google.com";
string html = String.Empty;

HttpWebRequest request = null;
HttpWebResponse response = null;
StreamReader sr = null;
try
{
//to establish the request
request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);

//to set the properties
request.Timeout = 10000;
request.UserAgent = " a simple sample web client";

//retrieve information headers
response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
Encoding enc = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252); //Windows default code page
sr = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream(), enc);
html = sr.ReadToEnd();
}
catch
{
throw;
}
this.richTextBox1.Text = html;
response.Close();
sr.Close();


Please have a try and tell me the result!

Hi,

Dim bGetAsAsync As Boolean
Dim onlinelist As String

Label5.Text = "Online: "
oHTTP = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")

bGetAsAsync = False

oHTTP.open("GET", "http://www.google.com", bGetAsAsync)
oHTTP.send()

onlinelist = oHTTP.responseText

For counter = 0 To (ListBox5.Items.Count - 1)
If onlinelist.IndexOf(ListBox5.Items.Item(counter)) > 1 Then Label5.Text = Label5.Text + ListBox5.Items.Item(counter) + ", "

Next

Got it to work. It's much easier to read the website's sourcecode which is not encoded. Thanks for helping

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Shaalini.S
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