Connect to a website and download html source?

[preben]

Hi!

I just went from vb 6.0 to VB.net. And I would like to use the VB.net way for connecting to a website. But I don't know how??

What I would like is:
* connect to a site
* get the html
* get the response code (like 200 is online, 404 = not excist)

I did this with iNet before, but I don't know how to do this in Vb. I've seen similar questions on forums, but I just can't make 'em work.

Please help!

Thanks!

[Jumpercables]

This code will go upto a website and get the html source code.

Try
   Dim request As WebRequest =  WebRequest.Create("http://www.vbforums.com") 
   Dim response As WebResponse =  request.GetResponse() 
   Dim stream As System.IO.Stream =  request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream() 
   Dim streamReader As System.IO.StreamReader =  New System.IO.StreamReader(stream) 
   Dim strPageSource As String = streamReader.ReadToEnd()
End Try

[jmcilhinney]

To display the source for this very page:

Using wc As New Net.WebClient
    MessageBox.Show(wc.DownloadString("http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=434146"))
End Using

[preben]

Hi!

Thank you guys for those greate responses.
Do you know how to get the status code? Like response 200, 403, 404 etc?

Thanks!

[Jumpercables]

To display the source for this very page:

Using wc As New Net.WebClient
    MessageBox.Show(wc.DownloadString("http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=434146"))
End Using

jmcilhnney you turned my 5 lines of code into one simple one nice, learned something new today!

[jmcilhinney]

If you use Jumpercables' code but with HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse objects specifically you can then get the StatusCode property of the response. Check out the help topic for the HttpStatusCode enumeration for all the status codes and the enumerated values that they correspond to. Also take note of the response's StatusDescription property. You might use them something like this:

If response.StatusCode <> HttpStatusCode.Accepted Then
    MessageBox.Show(response.StatusDescription, "HTTP Error " & CInt(response.StatusCode))
End If