Simply reading a website?

[jpaterson2525]

im trying to read a website and i keep getting the exception "underlying connection was closed"

...
WebClient w = new WebClient();
Stream s = w.openRead(addr);
...

and yes addr has a 'http://' prefix

why am i getting this exception every time?

[Diamonddrake]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/781fwaz8.aspx

According to the 2 little lines you posted. it looks fine, this link is the usage, and that works fine on my machine. Must be something else. feel free to post more code.

[Mitja Bonca]

1st of all, you have to add a new namespace (using System.Net;)
Now I will show you a simple example of how to get the website`s text:

List<string> list = new List<string>();
        private void GetAllText()
        {
            WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("http://www.daniweb.com");
            WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
            using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
            {
                while (!sr.EndOfStream)
                    list.Add(sr.ReadLine()); //line by line it writes into a list<T>.
            }
            ShowingText();
        }

[Diamonddrake]

That is an odd example Mitja, you only need 2 lines of code for this, you defiantly don't want to separate all the strings into a generic list like that. And its unnecessary to handle the request and response like that. Just use your framework classes.

// Create web client.
        WebClient client = new WebClient();

        // Download string.
        string value = client.DownloadString("http://www.daniweb.com/");

[Mitja Bonca]

Ok, I put an example which I used ones - I had to seperate the lines of code.

[jpaterson2525]

my code compiles why would you assume that this is a compiler issue... its the webclient class thats not working correctly im trying to figure out why

[jpaterson2525]

solved was using a proxy lol