getting results from another html page

[Michael Jean]

hello,

i am building some objects to keep track of page
statistics (ie, pages visited by certain ip addresses) so
that i can see which countries my visitors are coming
from. i am using a free php service to determine the
location of an ip address.. for example, if i want to
find ip 1.2.3.4's country, i go to
http://www.myservice.xxx/findip.php?ip=1.2.3.4 and it
will spit back "united states" or "canada" or whatever..

how can i call this from inside an asp.net page to get
the result? for example,

Dim strClientIPAddress as String
Dim strCountry as String

strCountry = SomehowEvaluate("http://.../findip.php?ip="
& strClientIPAddress)

any help will be greatly appreciated!

mike

 

[Carl Prothman [MVP]]

Michael,
You could use the "System.Net.WebClient" class.
e.g.
Dim wc As New System.Net.WebClient
Dim st As System.IO.Stream = wc.OpenRead("http://www.myservice.xxx/findip.php?ip=1.2.3.4")
Dim sr As New System.IO.StreamReader(st)
Dim country As String = sr.ReadToEnd()

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Thanks,
Carl Prothman
Microsoft ASP.NET MVP
http://www.able-consulting.com