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These static functions will execute an http GET and get the response as a string. The seconds function uses a user/password to login.

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  1. /// <summary>
  2. /// Get a response as a string, given a uri string.
  3. /// </summary>
  4. /// <param name="uriArg">Specifies a uri such as "http://www.google.com" or @"file://X:\dir\myFile.html"</param>
  5. /// <returns>web response as a string.</returns>
  6. /// <example>
  7. /// try
  8. /// {
  9. ///    string uri = "http://www.google.zzz"; // note bad uri with zzz to exercise exception.
  10. ///    string s = GetWebPageResponse( uri ); 
  11. ///    Console.WriteLine( s );
  12. /// }
  13. /// catch ( WebException ex )
  14. /// {
  15. ///    // wex.Message could be something like: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.
  16. ///    string s = string.Format( "Request: {0}\nResult: {1}", uri, ex.Message );
  17. ///    Console.WriteLine( s );
  18. /// }
  19. /// </example>
  20. static string GetWebPageResponse(string uriArg)
  21. {
  22.     Stream responseStream = WebRequest.Create(uriArg).GetResponse().GetResponseStream();
  23.  
  24.     StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream);
  25.  
  26.     return reader.ReadToEnd();
  27. }
  28.  
  29. /// <summary>
  30. /// Similar to GetWebPageResponse(string uriArg), but uses a user/pw to log in.
  31. /// </summary>
  32. /// <param name="uriArg">e.g. "http://192.168.2.1"</param>
  33. /// <param name="userArg">e.g. "root"</param>
  34. /// <param name="pwArg">e.g. "admin"</param>
  35. /// <returns>string containing the http response.</returns>
  36. /// <example>
  37. /// // Example to get a response with DHCP table from my LinkSys router.
  38. /// string s = GetWebPageResponse( "http://192.168.2.1/DHCPTable.htm", "root", "admin" );
  39. /// </example>
  40. static string GetWebPageResponse(string uriArg, string userArg, string pwArg)
  41. {
  42.     Uri uri = new Uri(uriArg);
  43.     HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);
  44.     CredentialCache creds = new CredentialCache();
  45.  
  46.     // See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.directoryservices.protocols.authtype.aspx for list of types.
  47.     const string authType = "basic";
  48.  
  49.     creds.Add(uri, authType, new NetworkCredential(userArg, pwArg));
  50.     req.PreAuthenticate = true;
  51.     req.Credentials = creds.GetCredential(uri, authType);
  52.  
  53.     Stream responseStream = req.GetResponse().GetResponseStream();
  54.  
  55.     StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream);
  56.  
  57.     return reader.ReadToEnd();
  58. }

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