[2005] HTTP GET Method to a website with Cookie header

I am trying to access a website using vb.net. I need to change a couple of headers (mainly the Cookie header). Then I need to get all the HTML contents of the page into one HTML file. How do I go about doing this? I've had problems making it work with HttpWebResponse and using a stream. It keeps telling me that the stream can't be read. It also has problems using GET instead of POST. Can someone help me out?

anyone?

Can you post the code in question?

here is the code :

VB Code:

Dim web1 As HttpWebRequest = CType(WebRequest.Create("http://www.somesite.com/page.php"), HttpWebRequest)
Dim myHttpWebResponse As HttpWebResponse
web1.AllowAutoRedirect = False
web1.UserAgent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"
web1.Accept = "image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, application/x-shockwave-flash, */*"
web1.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.AcceptLanguage, "bg")
web1.KeepAlive = True
web1.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.Cookie, "PHPSESSID=d2b09d04a99bd4e222e13766229ece19")
web1.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
web1.Method = "GET"
myHttpWebResponse = CType(web1.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
Dim streamResponse As Stream = myHttpWebResponse.GetResponseStream()
Dim streamRead As New StreamReader(streamResponse) 'Error here Message: Stream was not readable
Dim readBuff(256) As [Char]
Dim count As Integer = streamRead.Read(readBuff, 0, 256)
While count > 0
    Dim outputData As New [String](readBuff, 0, count)
    strHTML = strHTML & outputData
    count = streamRead.Read(readBuff, 0, 256)
End While
streamRead.Close()
streamResponse.Close()
myHttpWebResponse.Close()

all i want to do is access that page and get its HTML contents, but i want to set the PHPSESSID before i access the page. What do i do? Do I use get or is there something wrong with my code? Please help. Thx

a reply with some help would be nice

did i miss something? cause all of a sudden nobody is helping me out in these forums.

Have you tried doing the following?

Code:

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WebRequest.Create("http://www.somesite.com/page.php?PHPSESSID=d2b09d04a99bd4e222e13766229ece19")

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You should be able to remove all that web1 configuration code too.

This should work for a standard GET request.