Read HTML source to string

Question

I hope you don\'t frown on me too much, but this should be answerable by someone fairly easily. I want to read a file on a website into a string, so I can extract information fr

Answer 1

if it is a hack - then just grab the source from show source, and save as txt. then you can open it with a normal file io stream.

• all thos pesky libraries are a hint that it is a common and non-trivial excercise to do it right... :)