Free C# Web Reqest Class – LazyHTTP – cURL like Functionality
December 29th, 2009
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See the class below. If you can’t understand how to use it, you may want to brush up on C# … or get a book or something. Here is LazyHTTP (special thanks to nuls on the Syndk8 Blackhat SEO Forums for cleaning this up):
/* LazyHTTP Lazy Request Class. (c) 2009 by ilikenwf http://www.ilikenwf.com
* Special thanks to nuls of the syndk8 forums at http://forum.syndk8.net
* feel free to copy, modify, share, and distribute as you wish,
* and to include this in any projects you may have, commercial or not.
* please just leave the credits line up above.
* In other words, consider this licensed under the GNU Public License */
using System;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
namespace LazyHTTP
{
public class LazyClient : WebClient, IDisposable
{
public new string DownloadString(string address)
{
string output = String.Empty;
try {
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(address);
request.UserAgent = @"YOUR USERAGENT STRING HERE";
request.KeepAlive = false;
request.Timeout = 15 * 1000;
HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse) request.GetResponse();
using (StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(res.GetResponseStream())) {
output = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
}
} catch {
// Error Hiding - Weeee!
}
return output;
}
public void PostAction(string address, string postString)
{
try {
HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(address);
req.Timeout = 3000;
req.Method = "POST";
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
req.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = false;
byte[] postBytes = new UTF8Encoding().GetBytes(postString);
req.ContentLength = postBytes.Length;
using (Stream stream = req.GetRequestStream()) {
stream.Write(postBytes, 0, postBytes.Length);
stream.Close();
}
req.GetResponse().Close();
} catch {
// Error Hiding - Weeee!
}
}
public void Dispose()
{
// Needed for IDisposable Interface
}
}
}