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dayve
Forum Moderator
USA
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 Posted - 31 October 2003 : 00:26:58
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I have used both of the following in the past:
XML
HTMLGet = Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP.3.0")
HTMLGet.Open("GET", "http://www.somerandomsite.com", false)
HTMLGet.Send
strText = HTMLGet.responseText
HTMLGet = Nothing
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objRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create("http://www.somerandomsite.com")
objResponse = objRequest.GetResponse()
Dim sr As New StreamReader(objResponse.GetResponseStream())
strText = sr.ReadToEnd()
sr.Close()
Pro and Cons of both? |
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davemaxwell
Access 2000 Support Moderator
USA
3020 Posts |
Posted - 31 October 2003 : 06:51:41
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| Considering the .NET version will be compiled, that way SHOULD run faster than the asp classic method. You'd have to run metrics to find out for sure however. |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 31 October 2003 : 17:17:56
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I'd guess that trying to measure them would be difficult anyway becuase the completion of the function is dependant on the latency/time to scrape the destination page.
Personally I'd say go with what your most comfortable using as I suspect the actual performance differences are negligible anyway (opening myself up to be horribly wrong when someone works out a good way to test the difference) |
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dayve
Forum Moderator
USA
5820 Posts |
Posted - 31 October 2003 : 18:02:11
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| would you happen to know which option gives me more flexibility and options to use with it? I can't seem to find decent references. |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 31 October 2003 : 18:18:03
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| I think they both offer identical functionality from what I've read (I've not used the .NET version myself) |
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DavidRhodes
Senior Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 31 October 2003 : 18:34:02
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I did a program for work last year to do with search engines, basically it looped a set of keywords for a chosen company, and for each keyword looped about 10 search engines each using the code above, eg Company Acme, 5 keywords, 10 search engines = 50 Web Requests. The program was original specced for VB6 but I had to make an ASP.NET webservice to do the Web Requests because the XML object wasn't stable enough, then call the webservice from a VB6 client using SOAP.
The project never really got finished but the next stage was to do the Web Requests assyncronously, which can only be done in .NET easily. |
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