Hitting a website via C#.net command line

[mediaguycouk]

Easy one for you all I'm sure.

Is there a command that will hit a web address (for example mysite.com/scripts/update.php?id=1) but from a command line program?

[fenixproductions]

2mediaguycouk
What do you mean by "hit a web address"?

If you have getting webpage in mind then it is simple:

Code: (csharp)

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;

namespace ConsoleApplication5
{
	class Program
	{
		static void Main( string[] args )
		{
			String url = @"http://www.google.com";
			String result = null;

			try
			{
				WebClient tmpClient = new WebClient();
				result = tmpClient.DownloadString(url);
				Console.Write(result);
			}
			catch (Exception exc)
			{
				Console.Write(exc.ToString());
			}
		}
	}
}

Little more info:
http://www.csharp411.com/read-a-web-page-in-c/

[mediaguycouk]

When I say hit I mean like a Cron job makes a web page do a task. The webserver has to process the page but the C# program doesn't need to read anything (except maybe to realise that the page has been hit and not a 404).

[Edit]
Just to clarify, I think your code will be fine for that. Probably better than fine as I can output something like 'Success' and then check that the word success has been passed back.

[fenixproductions]

2mediaguycouk
Maybe this will be nice addon for you:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/cron.aspx

[mediaguycouk]

I'll bookmark that but not what I'm looking for this time.

My code is does the following

- Encode news
- Upload to Flash Streaming server
- Overwrite last news
- Change date by making site.com/admin/updatedate?news=bbcmonday&newdate=090609

The program can move the file, but it cannot write to the mysql database, so I have to make the website do it but only once the program is finished encoding.

Many thanks. Will be using the code from your first link

[fenixproductions]

The program can move the file, but it cannot write to the mysql database, so I have to make the website do it but only once the program is finished encoding.

Maybe Connector/Net will solve your problems:
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/6.0.html

With it you can simply connect to MySQL database (and change something, I assume) using something like:
http://bitdaddys.com/MySQL-ConnectorNet.html