/// <summary>
/// Perform an Http GET or POST operation, passing cookies, post data,
/// user name and password, and return the result.
/// </summary>
/// <example>
/// <code>
/// using Argentini.Halide;
/// ...
/// string retVal = H3Http.GetWebPage("http://www.site.com", H3Http.GetWebPageMethod.Get, cookies, postData, "jsmith", "password");
/// </code>
/// </example>
/// <param name="url">Fully qualified URL to the remote page.</param>
/// <param name="method">GetWebPageMethod enum value.</param>
/// <param name="cookies">CookieContainer variable for sending cookies.</param>
/// <param name="postData">String post data for sending a post.</param>
/// <param name="userName">User name string for Windows Authentication.</param>
/// <param name="password">password string for Windows Authentication.</param>
/// <param name="timeoutMilliseconds">Timeout in milliseconds for the request.</param>
/// <returns>A string with the result from the GET or POST operation.</returns>
public static String GetWebPage(String url, GetWebPageMethod method, CookieContainer cookies, String postData, String userName, String password, Int32 timeoutMilliseconds)
{
String response = "";
try
{
HttpWebRequest objRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
objRequest.ReadWriteTimeout = timeoutMilliseconds;
objRequest.Timeout = timeoutMilliseconds;
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(userName) || !String.IsNullOrEmpty(password))
{
NetworkCredential nc = new NetworkCredential();
nc.UserName = userName;
nc.Password = password;
objRequest.Credentials = nc;
}
objRequest.AllowWriteStreamBuffering = true;
objRequest.Method = method.ToString().ToUpper();
if (cookies != null) objRequest.CookieContainer = cookies;
objRequest.AllowAutoRedirect = true;
objRequest.Timeout = 30000;
objRequest.Proxy = null;
objRequest.UserAgent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)";
if (method == GetWebPageMethod.Post && !String.IsNullOrEmpty(postData))
{
objRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
using (StreamWriter myWriter = new StreamWriter(objRequest.GetRequestStream()))
myWriter.Write(postData);
}
HttpWebResponse objResponse = (HttpWebResponse)objRequest.GetResponse();
//if redirected, this is the final uri
//FinalURL = objResponse.ResponseUri.ToString();
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(objResponse.GetResponseStream()))
response = sr.ReadToEnd();
}
catch (Exception err)
{
throw new Exception("Halide.H3Http Error: " + err.ToString());
}
return response;
}
/// <summary>
/// Perform an Http GET or POST operation, passing cookies, post data,
/// user name and password, and return the result.
/// </summary>
/// <example>
/// <code>
/// using Argentini.Halide;
/// ...
/// string retVal = H3Http.GetWebPage("http://www.site.com", H3Http.GetWebPageMethod.Get, cookies, postData, "jsmith", "password");
/// </code>
/// </example>
/// <param name="url">Fully qualified URL to the remote page.</param>
/// <param name="method">GetWebPageMethod enum value.</param>
/// <param name="cookies">CookieContainer variable for sending cookies.</param>
/// <param name="postData">String post data for sending a post.</param>
/// <param name="userName">User name string for Windows Authentication.</param>
/// <param name="password">password string for Windows Authentication.</param>
/// <returns>A string with the result from the GET or POST operation.</returns>
public static String GetWebPage(String url, GetWebPageMethod method, CookieContainer cookies, String postData, String userName, String password)
{
return GetWebPage(url, method, cookies, postData, userName, password, 300000);
}
/// <summary>
/// Perform an Http GET or POST operation, and return the result.
/// </summary>
/// <example>
/// <code>
/// using Argentini.Halide;
/// ...
/// string retVal = H3Http.GetWebPage("http://www.site.com", Halide.H3Http.GetWebPageMethod.Get, postData);
/// </code>
/// </example>
/// <param name="url">Fully qualified URL to the remote page.</param>
/// <param name="method">GetWebPageMethod enum value.</param>
/// <param name="postData">String post data for sending a post.</param>
/// <returns>A string with the result from the GET or POST operation.</returns>
public static String GetWebPage(String url, GetWebPageMethod method, String postData)
{
return GetWebPage(url, method, null, postData, null, null);
}
