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I’ve recently been experimenting with C#s webbrowser and my curiosity has been peaked.. How does the browser actually access the webpage’s code? I mean, the html, php, javascript, ajax, what have you.. How does it access it and can anyone give me a coding example of how to access it myself?
This is an awfully high level question that can only be answered with low level answers. Too much to answer with in a StackOverflow reply.
The Web Browser component is an ActiveX component that is hosted by Shdocvw.dll. See this MSDN article about how Internet Explorer works.
This question isn’t very specific to C# at all, as the WebBrowser control does what it does the same way it does it in IE – its the same control.
If you’re unfamiliar with how a browser works, sockets, TCP, or networking in general, then you may not be able to understand how it does anything that it does.
Also: PHP is a server-side language. It is processed on the server before any data it transferred to the client.
If you’re after a C# example on downloading the content of a website, you can look at plenty of examples already here on StackOverflow and MSDN, namely here: WebClient Class – MSDN.