[RESOLVED] [2005] Listing remote Directory

Hi.. I'm new to visual basic, I'm now making a program to list files in remote directory, currently I'm using php to generate text file and my program to read the text file

I want to read file line by line from http://localhost/tes/view.txt

but it got stuck at this code

Code:

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Dim objReader As New StreamReader("http://localhost/tes/view.txt")

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It said URI format not supported.. How to make it support? Is there some way to read remote file text?

or is there some other way yo read files in directory?

Thanks..

You need to use a WebClient to download that file, then read it using streamreader. Something like this:

Code:

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      Using WC As New System.Net.WebClient()
            Dim strem As IO.Stream = WC.OpenRead("put the address here")
            Using reader As New System.IO.StreamReader(strem)
                Dim line As String = String.Empty
                While reader.Peek >= 0
                    line = reader.ReadLine()
                    'Do whatever you want with that line here
                    '
                End While
            End Using
        End Using

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Originally Posted by stanav

You need to use a WebClient to download that file, then read it using streamreader. Something like this:

Code:

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      Using WC As New System.Net.WebClient()
            Dim strem As IO.Stream = WC.OpenRead("put the address here")
            Using reader As New System.IO.StreamReader(strem)
                Dim line As String = String.Empty
                While reader.Peek >= 0
                    line = reader.ReadLine()
                    'Do whatever you want with that line here
                    '
                End While
            End Using
        End Using

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Thanks a lot it's working.. :D

Hi LeonLanford,

you said you were trying to list remote directory with vb.net. I'm trying to do that but I haven´t found the way. Did you get it?

Thanks

I'm using php to generate file about the files and directory there and read the generated file..