Is it possible to make a web request using sockets? I am still studying about socket programming in VB.net and i wanted to upgrade my web request code using sockets.
Here is my web request code:
Dim cweb As String = "http://www.samplewebsite.com/"
Dim POST As String = "sample post data"
Dim request As HttpWebRequest
Dim response As HttpWebResponse
Dim tempCookies As New CookieContainer
request = CType(WebRequest.Create(cweb), HttpWebRequest)
request.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0"
request.AllowAutoRedirect = True
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
request.ContentLength = POST.Length
request.Method = "POST"
request.KeepAlive = True
request.CookieContainer = tempCookies
Dim requestStream As Stream = request.GetRequestStream()
Dim postBytes As Byte() = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(POST)
requestStream.Write(postBytes, 0, postBytes.Length)
requestStream.Close()
response = CType(request.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
tempCookies.Add(response.Cookies)
Dim postreader As New StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())
Dim thepage As String = postreader.ReadToEnd
response.Close()
Any samples or tips will be gladly accepted i really want to learn making a web request using sockets. Thanks in advance.
