Programmatically extract body of a web page

The technique used in this article can be used to display the contents of an HTML page inside your ASP.NET pages instead of using IFRAMES.

System.Net.WebRequest req = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(Request.QueryString["url"]);
System.Net.HttpWebResponse resp = (System.Net.HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();
System.IO.Stream respStream = resp.GetResponseStream();
System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(respStream);
string responseFromServer = sr.ReadToEnd();
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex bodyRegex = new System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex(@"(]*>[\u0000-\uFFFF]+?)");
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Match bodyMatch = bodyRegex.Match(responseFromServer);
Literal1.Text = bodyMatch.Result("$0");
sr.Close();
respStream.Close();
resp.Close();

Thanks to ClayCo at the ASP.NET Forums for his help. Here is the link to the original thread http://forums.asp.net/t/1023144.aspx

Posted in .net, asp.net, c# | 1,684 views | No Comments