Web content access

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Hello everyone,

It has been a while and I need some help. I need to access specific
information on a third party web site and return that specific information on
a web site I am working on. Is there a library or namespace I can use that
will provide support for such a feature or do I have to use client-side
scripting, namely the navigate function in javascript. Any help in this
matter will be much appreciated.

Thank you in advance,

Sam I am-
 
My problem though, is how do I access the remote page? I thought of using
javascripts' Navigate or location Method or property but all that does is
redirect to the provided url. I need to grab the information on the remote
page, stuff it into a string and parse it while remaining at the local or
rather current page without being redirected. Do you know of a Library in
..NET or of the proper javascript method to use inorder to accomplish my
requirements?
 
I'll have to parse the HTML from the pages. Most likely though stuff the
encoded information into a StringBuilder or a string.
 
Howdy,

Could you give us more details regarding the way data is exposed by this
third party website? do you have to parse HTML from the pages, or get XML
document?
 
Howdy,

Sorry for my late reply. It's quite simple:

System.Net.WebRequest request =
System.Net.WebRequest.Create("http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx");

request.Method = "GET";
System.Net.WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
System.IO.Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream();

System.IO.StreamReader reader =
new System.IO.StreamReader(stream);
System.Text.StringBuilder html =
new System.Text.StringBuilder(reader.ReadToEnd());

// do something with the html returned for the page
 
Thank you for your reply nevertheless. I figured it out but I used
HttpWebRequest with streamreader and used the post method as opposed to the
get method.

Everything is working fine except now I am stuck with the monotonous task of
parsing the HTML to get the elements I need. It is specially difficult
because the elements I need do not have ID's so I have to use Regex and do
some pattern matching.
:-S boring stuff. I hate Regular Expressions.

I am Sam-
 
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