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Description

This code can send data to a webpage using the HTTP POST method, or download an HTML webpage and return a string response value in both cases.

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By	Jon Barker
Level	Intermediate
User Rating	3.7 (11 globes from 3 users)
Compatibility	VB.NET
Category	Internet/ Browsers/ HTML
World	.Net (C#, VB.net)
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Source Code

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Imports System
Imports System.text
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Function DownloadPage(ByVal sCompleteURL As String) As String
  Dim wDownload As System.Net.WebClient = New System.Net.WebClient()
  Dim bHTML As Byte() = wDownload.DownloadData(sCompleteURL)
  Dim sWebPage As String = Encoding.ASCII.GetChars(bHTML)
  Return sWebpage
 End Function
Function PostData(ByVal sAddress As String, ByVal sData As String) As String
  Dim wUpload As Net.WebClient = New System.Net.WebClient()
  Dim bPostArray As Byte() = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(sData)
  Dim bResponse As Byte() = wUpload.UploadData(sAddress, "POST", bPostArray)
  Dim sWebPage As String = Encoding.ASCII.GetChars(bResponse)
  Return sWebPage
 End Function