Best way to transfer web page contents to a String?

[Tontow]

What is the best way to transfer web page contents to a string variable?

I have a large list of items I want to look up on a web site. (The size of the list may vary)
The website is www.poxshop.com and already has the needed function calls in place, IE:
http://www.poxshop.com/rune/G'hern_Overlord/
http://www.poxshop.com/rune/boghopper/
(All I need are the credit values.)

What is the best way to transfer the contents of 100 + pages to a string variable or string array?
I did a search and found about half a dozen or so ways to get the contents of a web page, but I'm not shore which is the best way.

[DigiRev]

Adding this module will allow you to download the source code of a webpage directly into a string variable (without having to save it to a file first).

http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.p...2&d=1165810051

Then you can just use it like:

MyString = GetURLSource("http://www.google.com/")

[Tontow]

Nice, thanks.

I'm on a 56k modem, is there another way to do it faster? Remember, I'm looking up 100 to 300+ pages at once.

[DigiRev]

I'm looking up 100 to 300+ pages at once.

That's not a good idea on a 56k modem to begin with. It will be real slow. And too many at once could disconnect you.

I would say the fastest might be the Winsock control, at least then you could do more than 1 page at a time.

But that requires you to know how to connect to a web server, parse the URL and set a GET request for that page.

I can help you with this a little later when I'm not busy.

[Jicks]

Hey
try Inet Control
and u want to download 100+ webpages string then
write script to get each pages url & pass with inet Control..
Jicks

[Tontow]

Dose anyone else have any input?