Webpage Source

Question

Hey forum! I'm new here and would just like to say heya!

Well to get started on my program I'm working on a program that downloads info form World of Warcraft Armory website and then gives you statistics about random stuff. I'm having a little trouble with getting the XML. Here is the site: http://www.wowarmory.com/guild-info.xml?r=...Creature+Within

When you right click and click View Page Source you get the XML document. That is the exact text i want in my textbox of my form. So to recap: I want to get the "View Page Source" code of the website posted above. Iv tried the .documenttext and the .gethtml and .inner .outer ext ext but it all returns HTML and not the XML document from the right click and "View Page Source"

Sidenote(I found out that Google Chrome shows the html version but iexplore/firefox shows the XML version)

Can anyone help me? Post if need more details.

Thanks in advance
- Mike

Mike · Answer

Thanks for this info! So it pretty much is telling the site that you're firefox accesing the XML... very nice. Thanks for the info. Much appreciated.

Renae · Answer

I finally found it: WebClient client = new WebClient(); // the crucial line client.Headers[HttpRequestHeader.UserAgent] = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6; // Download it to another file client.DownloadFile(GuildURL SaveFile); // or get xml as string string result = client.DownloadString(GuildURL); Now that i know what it is i had the same problem with php when i did it 2 years ago. To bad i didn't remember that. Anyway thanks go to another wow player... :) http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/33974363/how-to-save-html-page-sou.aspx

Renae · Answer

Hey Did you ever figure this out. I have a php site that picks up the xml and populates a database all works well there. Now I'm trying to convert the site to aspx but can't figure out how to get the xml in c sharp just keep getting the html source. If you figure it out please let me know.