Sometimes we may need to get the HTML contents of a web page programmatically
and without loading it in a browser. The following code can be used for doing
it. Let’s take a look..
Private Function ReturnWebData(ByVal URL As String) As String
        Dim WebResltStr As String = Nothing
        Dim DtStrm As Stream = Nothing
        Dim StrmRdr As StreamReader = Nothing

        Dim WebReqst As WebRequest = Nothing
        Dim WebResp As HttpWebResponse = Nothing

        Try
            'Create the web request
            WebReqst = WebRequest.Create(URL)
            WebReqst.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials 

            'Get the response
            WebResp = DirectCast(WebReqst.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)

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