public class SampleCode
{
public SampleCode()
{}
// Download the HTML source code at the specified URL // You can optionally specify the username/password credentials, // in case the page uses Basic Authentication // Returns a null string if any error occurs public static string GetHtmlPageSource(string url) { return GetHtmlPageSource(url, null, null);
} public static string GetHtmlPageSource(string url, string username, string password) { System.IO.Stream st = null; System.IO.StreamReader sr = null; try { // make a Web request System.Net.WebRequest req = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(url); // if the username/password are specified, use these credentials if( username != null && password != null ) req.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(username, password); // get the response and read from the result stream System.Net.WebResponse resp = req.GetResponse(); st = resp.GetResponseStream(); sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(st); // read all the text in it return sr.ReadToEnd(); } catch(Exception ex) { return string.Empty; } finally { // always close readers and streams sr.Close(); st.Close(); } }
}