Imports System
Imports System.Net
Imports System.Text
Imports System.IO
Public Class Test
' Specify the URL to receive the request.
Public Shared Sub Main(ByVal args() As String)
Dim request As HttpWebRequest = CType(WebRequest.Create(args(0)), HttpWebRequest)
' Set some reasonable limits on resources used by this request
request.MaximumAutomaticRedirections = 4
request.MaximumResponseHeadersLength = 4
' Set credentials to use for this request.
request.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials
Dim response As HttpWebResponse = CType(request.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
Console.WriteLine("Content length is {0}", response.ContentLength)
Console.WriteLine("Content type is {0}", response.ContentType)
' Get the stream associated with the response.
Dim receiveStream As Stream = response.GetResponseStream()
' Pipes the stream to a higher level stream reader with the required encoding format.
Dim readStream As New StreamReader(receiveStream, Encoding.UTF8)
Console.WriteLine("Response stream received.")
Console.WriteLine(readStream.ReadToEnd())
response.Close()
readStream.Close()
End Sub 'Main
End Class 'Test
'
'The output from this example will vary depending on the value passed into Main
'but will be similar to the following:
'
'Content length is 1542
'Content type is text/html; charset=utf-8
'Response stream received.
'<html>
'...
'</html>
'
'