I've been testing using WebClient.DownloadString and sometimes I encounter an error: "The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden". It is based upon which url I use. For instance, this works:
Dim wc As New Net.WebClientDim strResult As String = String.Empty
Try
strResult = wc.DownloadString("http:/ Obama pages always fails.
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I am using WebClient.DownloadString method in vb.netto convert asp.net page to string after that I send this string by email. by I got this error from the server The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error. Unfortunately, no more details about the error. what is the possible problem ? edit: error in the following line of code :
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I am using WebClient.DownloadString method in vb.netto convert asp.net page to string after that I send this string by email. by I got this error from the server
The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.
Unfortunately, no more details about the error. what is the possible problem ?
error in the following line of code :
Dim str As String = client.DownloadString(Request.Url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority) + "/GFOPortalA/isd/ViewForm.aspx?ISD_FRM_NO=" + Session("ISD_ReqId"))
I use a downloadstring (instance.downloadstring) with instance as the'System.Net.WebClient'.
View 1 RepliesI have the following code that I'm trying to retrieve the HTML document. Not sure why it wouldn't work. Here's what I captured from Live HTTP Headers:
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How can I integrate a ProgressBar in this code? It takes normally some seconds (9-10), but my program looks like a "crash", for this reason i want use a ProgressBar
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I'm working on a project that scrapes data from government websites. I've noticed that whenever I use WebClient it doesn't always get the whole HTML code. Even when I get the robots.txt file it doesn't return everything. For example, http://www.bbc.co.uk/robots.txt has 80 lines but I'm only getting 13 lines.
If an HTML block uses "display: none" in the style I can't get anything between the hidden HTML blocks.Here is the sample code I'm using:[code]...
Well i want to add a listview item to the paramater of a Webclient DownloadString here is what i want
vb
Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load Dim wClient As New WebClient AddHandler wClient.DownloadProgressChanged, AddressOf DownloadProgressChanged(ListView1.Items(textbox1.text)'HAVE THIS IN HERE' AddHandler wClient.DownloadStringCompleted, AddressOf DownloadStringCompleted(ListView1.Items(textbox1.text)'Have THIS IN
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working in an intranet sit .downloadString took less than one second,but some times the server is down (maitenance or so on) and the the result took maybe one minute or so.Is there any way to set an lower interval?for example, if the server doesn't respond in 9 seconds return empty string, or so on.
I've read some about async comm but not sure what is the best solution.
why 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.
When I go to webcrawler.com and search for something, then look at the source code, a chunk of HTML similar to this displays the search results:
<div id="webResults">
<div class="searchResult webResult">
<a class="resultTitle" data-icl-coi="540" data-icl-cop="results-main" href=[website] target="_blank">[title]</a>
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But when I use WebClient.DownloadString to read the source code to a textbox, I only get this:
<div id="webResults">
</div>
There's nothing. All of the webresults have been removed.How come I can view the code in my internet browser but not on my application?? I even used an InStr method to confirm that the results weren't contained in the generated code.
I'm getting a string response from a server using a simple call of the Webclient.DownloadString() method, the returned string is something like this:
"snakeu003Cbu003E eyesu003C/bu003E"
how can I convert that in whatever those codes means?
I've managed to narrow down my issue to a simple annoyance. I had a Webbrowser control mostly coded to navigate around an Oracle CRM On Demand site to generate metric reports, but then realized when I tried to build in the auto-download part, that the Webbrowser object wasn't going to give me the behind-the-scenes control I wanted. Searching online, it seems the Webclient control might be a better route. However I'm stuck trying to get by the login page so I can use the Download-File method to get my generated xls report. [Code] But every reply from the server has "Sign In Error: Both a user sign in ID and a password must be given." which tells me the form/post data isn't getting where it needs to go (It thinks the form is blank at [Code].
The above username and password are bogus of course, but once I can get a different reply then 'the fields are blank' I can worry about correct logon information. I'm just not sure what I'm not doing correctly or if I need to include something else. Since it's a publicly accessible site and I'm stuck getting something in the form to be 'seen', it should be easy for others to try and test.
I'm trying to parse the current song off a shoutcast stream admin page put my app just hangs at that line.
VBCODE
Using wc As New Net.WebClient
MessageBox.Show(wc.DownloadString("http://66.90.121.11:10013"))
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I'm automating downloads. I was getting this error quite a bit using Webbrowser to navigate to a PDF (various PDFs at various websites). In other words the PDF was already on display in the browser when I called WebClient.DownloadToFile. I got a LOT better results when I desisted from WebClient and switched to this API (just pass in the two strings along with zeroes for the other parameters).
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And yet Webclient seems oriented for only two entries (username and password). How do you set up the credentials for three entries? I hate to abandon WebClient, but at this point I just don't know how to make it work.
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System.Exception: Transaction (Process ID xx) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim.
I suspect this
Dim webc As New WebClient
webc.DownloadFile(remotexml, targetxml)
webc.Dispose()
Then i am using the targetxml right after that:
Dim xmldoc As New XmlDocument
xmldoc.Load(targetxml)
etc.
It seems that xml file is locked by the first process (WebClient).
I'm trying to download a simple text file from a web server. It's easily accessible from the web browser and I can download it from the web browser. However, whenever I use a WebClient to download the file, I get a 403 Access Forbidden Error! I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do. I haven't come across this kind of error in programming before and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do to get around it.
View 2 RepliesMy program takes user input, replaces all spaces with "+", then inserts it into a search url for a specified web host. For example, the user enters:"How long is a foot?"
The generated URL (in this case I'm using dogpile.com) is:
"http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search/web?&q=How+long+is+a+foot"
This method has worked before for me, but now I just get an Internal Server Error every time the code is executed.
I am getting an error with this Dim Web As New WebClient Web.Proxy = "69.196.16.237:62159" It says runtime errors may occur when converting string to System.Net.IWebProxy What does that mean?
View 9 RepliesI am making a little program witch get information from the web. Now i got some complains from people who are behind proxys. So my question is: Is there a way to get the proxy settings from IE, and let the WebClient use them?
View 1 RepliesI need help to optimize this
For x As Integer = 1 To Me.dtsCustomers.Tables(0).Rows.Count Try
'I SEND VALUES: NAME CUSTOMER AND HIS AMOUNT
Dim client As WebClient = New WebClient<br/>
client.Headers.Add("user-agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.0.3705;)")
client.QueryString.Add("customer", Me.dtsCustomers.Tables(0).Rows (x).item("customer"))
client.QueryString.Add("amount", Me.dtsCustomers.Tables(0).Rows(x).item("amount"))
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I have not much experience with the WebClient.. How can I catch this exception of e.Result DownloadDataCompletedEventArgs; "The remote name could not be resolved", which occurs after some time when internet connection is not working..? [URL]
The calling method:
Private Sub DoDownload()
Dim wc As New WebClient
Try
wc.DownloadDataAsync(New System.Uri(Me.webImageLink))
AddHandler wc.DownloadDataCompleted, AddressOf OnDownloadCompleted
Catch ex As Exception
Debug.Print(ex)
End Try
End Sub
What 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 RepliesHow would I make the Progress Bars Value = The Percentage of a file being downloaded using a Webclient?
View 2 Repliesi'm using WebClient in VB.NET to make requests. I add the headers using WebClient.Headers.Add() in the order I want the headers sent. However when I packet sniff the requests it makes I can see that the headers are sent in totally the wrong order. Does anyone know if there's a way of setting the order the headers are sent?
View 5 Repliesi am using the Webclient and Streamreader in Visual basic 2008 to retrieve data from the web. I access Yahoo and download stock information this all works well except for one area. All the indices symbols on Yahoo start with a circumflex character ^ so for example, the Dow Jones Index code is ^FTSE. When I include the ^ in the URI string sent via the Webclient it does not send the ^ it sends the code for ^ instead which Yahoo sees as %5E. Having made some tests is seems that certain characters do not get converted to their hex code and some do. A * gets sent just fine but a % also gets sent as its code 25.If I manually enter this from my browser it works just fine.
View 2 RepliesI've just switched my code over that downloads data as bytes to use a WebClient. I add a header saying I will accept GZip and the site I'm downloading from sends me the data compressed. The problem is, how can I check to make sure it is compressed data before attempting to decompress it? It was much simpler when I was using a Web Request to check the response headers, but I'm having a little trouble checking the reponse headers with a WebClient. Does anybody out there accept compression with a WebClient?
View 1 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've been using an invisible WebBrowser control to submit a form on my server, but I'd like to use System.Net.WebClient() to accomplish this so I don't have the control hanging around on my form.I need to get the page, fill out the username and password fields, and click the submit button. This was done easily enough with the WebBrowser control, but I can't find any examples using System.Net.WebClient().
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