Fetching Web Pages

WebFetch.cs

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;


/// <summary>
/// Fetches a Web Page
/// </summary>
class WebFetch
{
 static void Main(string[] args)
 {
  // used to build entire input
  StringBuilder sb  = new StringBuilder();

  // used on each read operation
  byte[]        buf = new byte[8192];

  // prepare the web page we will be asking for
  HttpWebRequest  request  = (HttpWebRequest)
   WebRequest.Create("http://solve-dotnet.blogspot.in/");

  // execute the request
  HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)
   request.GetResponse();

  // we will read data via the response stream
  Stream resStream = response.GetResponseStream();

  string tempString = null;
  int    count      = 0;

  do
  {
   // fill the buffer with data
   count = resStream.Read(buf, 0, buf.Length);

   // make sure we read some data
   if (count != 0)
   {
    // translate from bytes to ASCII text
    tempString = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buf, 0, count);

    // continue building the string
    sb.Append(tempString);
   }
  }
  while (count > 0); // any more data to read?

  // print out page source
  Console.WriteLine(sb.ToString());
 }
}