How do you read from a text file on the internet?

[JamesGeddes]

Reading from a text file on your local computer is easy, but surely using a URL to point to a different location should work too?

The code I have thus far is as follows

using System;
using System.IO;

namespace csharp_station.howto
{
    class TextFileReader
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // create reader & open file
            TextReader tr = new StreamReader("http://jamesgeddes.com/wttr.txt");

            // read a line of text
            Console.WriteLine(tr.ReadLine());

            Console.WriteLine("Enter your name");
            string s7 = Console.ReadLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Hello, {0}!", s7);
            // close the stream
            tr.Close();
        }
    }
}

However when this runs the "ArgumentExcept ion was unhandled" box pops up and says "URI formats are not supported."

All I want to do is read the contents of that text file, use it as the value of a variable or array and display it on the console. Is this possible?

Thanks everyone!

[tlhintoq]

I am so far out of my element here it's not funny... but I'm going to assume the streamreader just doesn't understand HTTP communication.

Using the URL you provided a web browser has no issue with it. Had you considered using a webbrowser control? Let it do all the communication/translation then ask it for the content it obtained?
System.Windows. Forms.WebBrowse r

I just dragged on onto a test form, gave it your URI and when run I see the "COMPLETE" text that is in your .txt

It looks to have a "DocumentComple ted" event... So I would guess that if you respond to this then you would know when you can get your content.

[tlhintoq]

I am so far out of my element here it's not funny... but I'm going to assume the streamreader just doesn't understand HTTP communication.

Using the URL you provided a web browser has no issue with it. Had you considered using a webbrowser control? Let it do all the communication/translation then ask it for the content it obtained?
System.Windows. Forms.WebBrowse r

I just dragged on onto a test form, gave it your URI and when run I see the "COMPLETE" text that is in your .txt

It looks to have a "DocumentComple ted" event... So I would guess that if you respond to this then you would know when you can get your content.