Parsing Web content

I am trying to download the code of a website and put it in a string.

I am getting this new error however:

$wc = new-object System.Net.WebClient
$wc.Headers.Add("user-agent", $userAgent)
$wc.DownloadString("http://google.com")

Exception calling "DownloadString" with "1" argument(s): "An exception
occurred
during a WebClient request." At line:1 char:19
+ $wc.DownloadString( <<<< "http://google.com")


Any ideas? I think this code worked fine on my other machine but not
this one (my laptop).

Thanks,

Nate

Works fine for me. Did you try any other URLs?

Shay
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com


n

natebruneau@xxxxxx wrote: What's $userAgent set to? This error could be a 500 thrown because of an
unrecognized user agent string. I'd tell you how to obtain the http status code
but I never figured out the best way to do it with WebClient. Instead, you
could try the same thing using XmlHttp and see what it returns.

$url = "http://www.cnn.com"
$xHTTP = new-object -com msxml2.xmlhttp;
$xHTTP.open("GET",$url,$false);
$xHTTP.send();
$xHTTP.ResponseText; # returns the html doc like downloadstring
$xHTTP.status # returns the status code
$xHTTP.statusText # status error text

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I ran it "as-is" even with $userAgent (which equals to $null) and I still
can get the web page.

Shay
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com