Question

I want to make a http request to a web server – the link I want to activate is

http://webserver/cgi-bin/fccgi.exe?w3exec=web.programname&w3serverpool=fcserverpool&optid=headline

It can’t be a hyperlink as I don’t want the page to go anywhere just make that request to that server/

Is this done through httpwebrequest? …anyone know of a good example in asp.net (vb)

Thanks,

Answer 1

Yes, just do something like this:

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://webserver/cgi-bin/fccgi.exe?w3exec=web.programname&w3serverpool=fcserverpool&optid=headline");
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

using (response) {
   StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());

   reader.ReadToEnd();
}