WebBrowser.Navigate v. Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse

[dbasnett]

Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I have been trying to get this to work for some time.

Const webReqTMO As Integer = 1000
'this works
' Const Hpage As String = "1.025"
'this fails but shouldn't
Const Hpage As String = "Missouri Revisor of Statutes - Revised Statutes of Missouri, RSMo, Missouri Law, MO Law, Joint Committee on Legislative Research"
Dim WEBreqst As Net.HttpWebRequest = Nothing
Dim WEBResp As Net.HttpWebResponse = Nothing
Dim siteUri As New Uri(Hpage)

WEBreqst = CType(Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(siteUri), Net.HttpWebRequest) 'build request
WEBreqst.Timeout = webReqTMO
WEBreqst.KeepAlive = False

Try
WEBResp = CType(WEBreqst.GetResponse(), Net.HttpWebResponse) 'get the page
Using reader As IO.StreamReader = New IO.StreamReader(WEBResp.GetResponseStream)
reader.ReadToEnd()
End Using
Catch ex As Exception
Stop
Finally
Try
If WEBResp IsNot Nothing Then
WEBResp.Close()
WEBResp.Dispose()
WEBResp = Nothing
End If
Catch nex As Exception
End Try
End Try


I get 404 errors which doesn't make sense, the page exists. To verify this I added a WebBrowser control and do this,

WebBrowser1.Navigate("Missouri Revisor of Statutes - Revised Statutes of Missouri, RSMo, Missouri Law, MO Law, Joint Committee on Legislative Research")

Works like a charm. I'm so confused!





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