I am working on a Geocoding app where I put the address in the URL and retreive the XML. I need the complete XML response for this project. Is there any other class for downloading the XML from a website that may be faster than using WebClient or HttpWebRequest? Can the XMLReader be used to get the full XML without string manipulation and would that be faster and/or more efficient?
View 2 Repliesdifferences between HttpWebRequest and WebClient and why I should use either.
View 1 RepliesI have took a little research for the method to grab the html tag and input the textbox strings into the html page by using system.net.webclient and httpwebrequest, but I couldn't find the answer.o get the the method for system.net.webclient and httpwebrequest to grab the html page and input the strings into the php form?
View 4 RepliesWhat is the difference between those 2 classes in System.Net?How can I login to website using one of these classes, and how can I post to a forum?
View 4 RepliesI'm using the following code to set the proxy on an HTTPWebRequest:
Dim proxy As New WebProxy("HOST:PORT")
...Then...
' Goto the final URL
request = CType(WebRequest.Create("[URL]"), HttpWebRequest)
request.Proxy = curProxy
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Now I put in a valid Proxy, don't run into any problems applying it, but IPChicken will always return my IP address, not that of the proxy.
I'm looking for a way to fill in various website details using a HttpWebRequest/WebClient. I can manage it quite easily using an invisible WebBrowser control, by manipulating the HtmlDocument, but for some reason I just can't quite grasp the way I would do it with a HttpWebRequest/WebClient. I've heard both of these can potentially submit info using the UploadData functionality etc, but I'm missing specificsI've done a lot of searching on google just for a basic example to get me started, but the only one that LOOKED informative was written entirely in German.Take, for example, this website. Let's just say I wanted to automate filling in my username and password into their respective boxes and then pressing the "submit" button. How would I start going about this, and how do I get the resulting page? (I'm assuming cookies that the page creates will keep your next webrequest going)
View 9 RepliesI have the following HTML Form That I'm trying to automate:
<html>
<body>
<!-- The data encoding type, enctype, MUST be specified as below -->
<form enctype="multipart/form-data"
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I am trying to automate the daily retrieving of a web file using .NET.The file is a PDF located at an address similar to: url...and these are the headers of HTTP request registered for debug using IE.[code]Can you please suggest me a way to get it and save it locally using WebClient, WebBrowser or other VB.NET (Framework 4.0) components?
View 1 Replieswhy the code below fails to retrieve the html
Dim WebReqeust As WebClient = New WebClient
Dim URL as string = "http://www.professionalorganizervannuys.com"
Dim WebPage As String = WebReqeust.DownloadString(URL)
It fails on this particular URL.
What I would like to know is how to obtain form input elements during an httpwebrequest?
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Is it possible to obtain these input elements during an httpwebrequest without having to view the html code?
I have no idea how to use httpwebrequest anyone can show me an example of code to do the following
1.Navigate to website with cookies
2.use this cookies and website referrer to download file with direct url (url...)
I am facing a strange problem with listbox. I need to scrab whois information. I used the following code to get source code of the whois query. It works fine if I use a textbox. But I need to use this for multiple url and therefore need to use lixtbox to loop through url list. Unfortunately when I use listbox1.selecteditem or listbox1.text it does not work. But this same code works with webbrowser.
Dim request As System.Net.HttpWebRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create("http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=" & listbox1.selecteditem)
request.UserAgent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)"
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I'm building this class to download files in parts/sections/segments. In .NET 4.0, I can use this code to specify the range to download from
long startPos = int.MaxValue+1;
HttpWebRequest.AddRange(startPos);
and it works because there is a long overload for the AddRange method. When I looked up the .NET 3.5 version, I realised the AddRange() method allows using int only. The possible workaround would be using the AddRange(string, int) or AddRange(string, int, int) methods. Since the class will have to work in .NET 3.5, I'll have to go with the string specification but unfortunately I can't seem to find any sample code that shows how to specify ranges using this procedure in .NET 3.5. Can anyone show be how to do this?As the first code sample I wrote shows, I would like to specify a range of type long instead of int. Using type int allows requesting for byte ranges only up to 2GB but long allows requesting for byte ranges beyong 2GB.
The question therefore is: How do I specify byte ranges of 2GB or higher on HttpWebRequest in .NET 3.5?
Here is my code:
Code:
Public Function getHtml(ByVal url As String) As String
dim objrequest as httpwebrequest
dim objresponse as httpwebresponse
Try
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My problem is: for some url that function takes a long time. So, i just want to cancel the response after a given time. I tried with a timer control but that is not working. What to do? How to modify this code so this function will return result within a given time whether httpwebresponse completed or not?
i allways get an Out of Mem Exception and the usage of my memory is growing and growing in the taskmanager when i execute follwowing source code:
Imports System.Net
Imports System.Text
Imports System.IO
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how to write a httpwebrequest, however i'm unsure of how to write it with a if...statement. I have a file that I need to download, however it ususally doesn't get posted until sometime Tuesday afternoon, so what I need to do is have the program continually check say once about every 5 minutes until the file has been posted and then download it.I'm presumming using an if...statement is the best way to accomplish this, basically if true(file exists) then proceed, else wait 5 minutes and rerun process.
View 7 RepliesHow to successfully log into a DSL-Router (Model: Speedport w504v Type A).I wrote a function usinig HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse. So far this function is not finished and is only for finding out the right login process.[cde]...
View 1 Repliescan any one see any thing wrong with my code. I swear it did work once or twice. * code now removed as updated below
View 2 Repliesuse a If then Statement with Httpwebrequest? Let me explain my senario. I have a file that needs to be downloaded from a web site once it is posted. Currently one of our staff manually goes out to the web site multiple times to check to see if the file has been posted, they then download the file, extract it's contents and use some of the info for reports that must be sent out the same day.
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I am trying to write a program that goes to a webpage and gets the html and puts it into a mshtml document but I always get an error. I know this example works when the webpage doesn't require Credentials. By the way i'm using vb 2008 express.
Dim theCredential As New System.Net.NetworkCredential("username", "password")
Dim Doc As mshtml.IHTMLDocument2
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I'm pretty sure that I need to use Httpwebrequest "POST" method for this although Im unsure as to the exact syntax to use. I need to do a xml query to a remote web site, something like <node>" "</node, <price>" "</price> and then collect that data and import it directly into a sql table. Any suggestions or directions?
View 4 RepliesI would like the VB.net WebClient to remember cookies.
I have searched and tried numerous overloads classes.
I want to login to a website via POST, then POST to another page and get its contents whilst still retaining my session.
Is this possible with VB.net without using WebBrowser control ?
I tried Chilkat.HTTP and it works, but I want to use .Net libraries.
I use
wb as webclient
wb.downloadstring(url)
Say 40 seconds have passed. I want wb to just give up. How to do so?
well its werid it worked once but then it just randomly stop i do havenamespace
Imports System.net
Imports System.IO
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as per usual i am a little confused. I know DownloadStringAsync runs on a threaded pool with a default min and max threads limit, but what confuses is how would i call DownloadStringAsync say for example ten times.Example.I have an array with 10 URLS. Surely i would not use a for each loop of the array index to pass the url address while each time calling DownloadStringAsync(New Uri("someArray(index)") surely we can pass say a range of items from the array and let DownloadStringAsync decide on the threaded pool how many to process each time?
View 6 RepliesI have a program that will register you for a certain website using textboxes and stuff but I have an invisible web browser and it just enters the text into the right spots and clicks the button.I was told that I can get rid of the web browser and do the whole thing faster and easier using "HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse".
View 2 RepliesDim s As HttpWebRequest
Dim username= "username=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode("username")
Dim message = "message=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode("message")
Dim sep = "&"
Dim sb As New StringBuilder()
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How do i reponse.write the result to the screen? I get errors like..Value of type 'System.Net.WebResponse' cannot be converted to 'String'.
I have created a httpwebrequest connection to a streaming API after trying a tTCPClient which just never ended up working. My concern is whether my code is correct and that I am actually reading in new data and that the connection is maintained. Initially I had been reading into a buffer and just loaded everything into a file after max size, but figured it would be simpler to read a line, since each entry was being sent delimited by line feeds.
rStream = webrequest.GetResponse().GetResponseStream
rStream = New GZipStream(rStream, CompressionMode.Decompress)
If rStream.CanRead then
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It looks like I am continuously reading and not sure if I am reading redundant data here. Also another question is that if I were to use a thread to appendToFile, would that maintain the connection to the stream?
I have a problem when trying to send a POST request. The sending method looks like this:
Public Sub SendXML(ByVal file As String)
Dim reader As New StreamReader(file)
Dim data As String = reader.ReadToEnd()
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Now looking at this I suspected that it was due to the fact that the server does not accept POST messages. But some other reading suggests that the the URI [URL] has been generated with a proxy and should be /Request so the line should read POST /Request HTTP/1.1
So what would be the common reason for this? And if it is a proxy problem, how is it sorted?
As asked below, I have created a new question for the more specific request. Changing absolute URI to relative in HTTP POST header
I am a newb to vb.net(visual studio 2008).i am trying to make an app using vb.net which can be used to login to a website and browse that website without using webbrowser(i dont want to use webbrowser of vb.net).i got a code for this from net ;I have made a temporary login webpage using php and mysql in my computer(its working properly).[code]...
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