get the html text by executing url

Question

Hi,

We used chilkatdotnet.dll to do this. The dll has a function called GetEmail(url) that will execute the url and return the html text that is rendered by the url. for example if we say GetEmail('www.stackoverflow.com') it will return the html text same as the one that we get when we click on view source. We are trying to implement the same functionality using .NET 2.0.

Please let me know if you have any ideas.

Thanks, sridhar.

Answer 1

Isn't this all you want?

string s = new System.Net.WebClient().DownloadString(url);

Answer 2

The HTTPWebRequest Class is probably something you'd want to look at; especially the GetResponse method. Examples are provided on the GetResponse documentation page.