How to read a file from internet?

Question

simple question: I have an file online (txt). How to read it and check if its there? (C#.net 2.0)

Answer 1

This is too much easier:

using System.Net;
using System.IO;

...

    using (WebClient client = new WebClient()) {
        //... client.options
        Stream stream = client.OpenRead("http://.........");
        using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream)) {
            string content = reader.ReadToEnd();
        }
    }

"WebClient" and "StreamReader" are disposables. The content of file will be into "content" var.

The client var contains several configuration options.

The default configuration could be called as:

string content = new WebClient().DownloadString("http://.........");