Reading Web Pages

[Kavius]

How can I allow my application to open a text document via HTTP?

I had an old C app for this, but the format has changed and I no longer have the code for this module of the system. Figured I would rewrite in C#.

 

[crazyboybert]

As for cmdematos post you can use the WebRequest and WebResponse classes in the System.Net namespace to retrieve a file by Http.

WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.domain.com/textfile.txt");[/URL]
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream);

This can allbe done Asynchrously as well using the BeginGetResponse method and an AsyncCallback delegate to handle the callback.

Rob

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