[help]read text from an online .txt[Solved]

[trevor206]

ok so i want to show text from a site in a textbox but not like getelement by id or anything, but like read the whole page of an online .txt so like the urls that are like https://www.example.com/example.txt and read everything from that "textfile".(don't flame me im trying new stuff(AND YES I HAVE TRIED MY SELF AND I HAVE PRESSED THE SEARCH BUTTON)

[Blubb1337]

[php]imports system.net
imports system.text
imports system.io[/php]

[php]Private Function loadPage(ByVal page As String) As String
Dim req As WebRequest = WebRequest.Create(page)
Dim resp As WebResponse = req.GetResponse()

Dim s As Stream = resp.GetResponseStream()
Dim sr As StreamReader = New StreamReader(s, Encoding.ASCII)
Dim doc As String = sr.ReadToEnd()
Return doc
End Function[/php]

[Lolland]

Can you use FTP?

FTP = reliable.

[Blubb1337]

I think he just wants the source of a random webpage.

[Lolland]

Trevard are you there to answer my question?

[trevor206]

Trevard are you there to answer my question?

no i want my program to read online .txt files

[Lolland]

Mmkay then solved?

[topblast]

webclient.DownloadString

i cant remember my computer is down

but this works 100% great..

if the web site not working it will just give u a messagebox saying it is not working

[trevor206]

Edit:
Solved i figured out how to get blubbs code to work.

[Sydney]

Global:

Dim client As New System.Net.WebClient()

Code:

RichTextBox1.Text = client.DownloadString("Yorftp/notice.txt")

[Lolland]

Marked solved then.
No more posting unless 101% necessary.