opentext( url address )

26 Nov 2006 3:57 PM

tommydnp

Hello,

I need to read a line in a textfile which is published on a website
address ( http://www.radiocontact.be/Live/onair2.txt ) so I can resolve
the playlist of a radiostation.

The problem is that the way I tried it doesn't work:

variable = opentext("http://www.radiocontact.be/Live/onair2.txt")

because it only works with file pathnames.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

26 Nov 2006 5:35 PM

Ken Tucker [MVP]

Hi,

        You need to get a response stream to read in the file.

        Dim sr As New
IO.StreamReader(Net.WebRequest.Create("http://www.radiocontact.be/Live/onair2.txt ").GetResponse.GetResponseStream)
        Trace.WriteLine(sr.ReadToEnd)

Ken
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"tommydnp" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I need to read a line in a textfile which is published on a website
> address ( http://www.radiocontact.be/Live/onair2.txt ) so I can resolve
> the playlist of a radiostation.
>
> The problem is that the way I tried it doesn't work:
>
> variable = opentext("http://www.radiocontact.be/Live/onair2.txt")
>
> because it only works with file pathnames.
>
> Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
>

26 Nov 2006 7:15 PM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"tommydnp" <nospam@nospam.com> schrieb:
> I need to read a line in a textfile which is published on a website
> address ( http://www.radiocontact.be/Live/onair2.txt ) so I can resolve
> the playlist of a radiostation.
>
> The problem is that the way I tried it doesn't work:
>
> variable = opentext("http://www.radiocontact.be/Live/onair2.txt")
>
> because it only works with file pathnames.

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