Hi,

I'm trying to read a bit of XML from the following site:

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Bladefist&n=Coquette

The xml document relies heavily on xsl... however if you view the source of
the page you'll see that it is indeed raw xml that's being served.

I'm using the following code to pull the xml document in string format:

Public Shared Function GetPageAsString(ByVal address As Uri) As String
   Dim request As HttpWebRequest
   Dim response As HttpWebResponse = Nothing
   Dim reader As StreamReader
   Dim result As String

   Try
      request = DirectCast(WebRequest.Create(address), HttpWebRequest)
      response = DirectCast(request.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
      reader = New StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())
      result = reader.ReadToEnd()
   Finally
      If Not response Is Nothing Then response.Close()
   End Try
   Return result
End Function

However when I view the resulting string value, it shows the xsl-parsed
code.  How can I retrieve just the raw xml?

Regards,
Scott M.

Scott McNair wrote:

Show quoteHide quote   request.UserAgent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
Your code simply makes a HTTP GET request and reads the response. If you
get HTML then the server sends HTML. It seems to help to set the HTTP
UserAgent as shown above, then I get XML and not HTML.

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