Using HTTPWebRequest in ASP.NET VB

Question

I don't have any idea how to use this class in .net. Anyone wants to share his knowledge how to implement and use this class?

Have you got any simple procedure that calls a page and process it?

Answer 1

Dim request = HttpWebRequest.Create("http://www.google.com")
Dim response = request.GetResponse()
Using reader = New StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())
    Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd())
End Using

Answer 2

The easiest way is to use the WebClient class that simplifies most common uses of HttpWebRequest.

Example in C#:

string page;
using (WebClient client = new WebClient()) {
   page = client.DownloadString("http://www.guffa.com");
}