/// <summary>
/// Invokes a request to the specified url and returns the result as an HTML string.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="thisHtml">The HTML helper instance that this method extends.</param>
/// <param name="url">The url to invoke the request on.</param>
/// <returns>The url contents as an HTML string.</returns>
public static MvcHtmlString LoadUrl(this HtmlHelper thisHtml, string url)
{
//get the url as an absolute url
UrlHelper helper = GetUrlHelper();
url = helper.Absolute(url);
var request = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest)System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(url);
//set the auth cookie so we don't just get the login page
request.SetAuthenticationCookie();
//get the response
string responseString = request.GetResponseString();
//return it as an html string
return(new MvcHtmlString(responseString));
}
/// <summary>
/// Gets the absolute URL (http://..../blah) to the specified URI
/// </summary>
/// <param name="urlHelper">The URL helper</param>
/// <param name="uri">URI to link to</param>
/// <returns>The absolute URL</returns>
public static string ContentAbsolute(this UrlHelper urlHelper, string uri)
{
return(urlHelper.Absolute(urlHelper.Content(uri)));
}
public static Uri Absolute(this UrlHelper url)
{
return(url.Absolute(string.Empty));
}
/// <summary>
/// Gets an absolute URL to the specified blog post
/// </summary>
/// <param name="urlHelper">The URL helper.</param>
/// <param name="post">Blog post to link to</param>
/// <returns>URL to this blog post</returns>
public static string BlogPostAbsolute(this UrlHelper urlHelper, PostSummaryModel post)
{
return(urlHelper.Absolute(urlHelper.BlogPost(post)));
}