public static string GetWebPageAsString(string url)
{
HttpWebRequest httpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(url);
HttpWebResponse httpWebResponse = null;
string xml = "";
try
{
httpWebResponse = (HttpWebResponse) httpWebRequest.GetResponse();
}
catch (WebException exception)
{
if (exception.Status == WebExceptionStatus.ProtocolError)
{ //get the response object from the WebException
httpWebResponse = exception.Response as HttpWebResponse;
if (httpWebResponse == null){ return "<Error />";}
}
}
Stream stream = httpWebResponse.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader streamReader
= new StreamReader
(stream, Encoding
.ASCII); xml = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
//streamReader.Close();
if (httpWebResponse.StatusCode != System.Net.HttpStatusCode.OK)
{
throw new Exception
(xml
); }
return xml;
}
//csharp/4826