/// Author: Francis A. Shanahan
/// http://www.FrancisShanahan.com 
using System;
using System.Xml;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Xml.Xsl;
using System.Collections.Specialized;

	/// <summary>
    /// Simply Helper class with many useful Mashup functions
	/// </summary>
	public class webUtility
	{
		static webUtility()
		{			
		}		       
       
        /// <summary>
        /// Retrieves a Uri using HTTP GET and returns the results as XML
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="strURL">Uri to retrive</param>
        /// <returns>Xml document results</returns>
		public static XmlDocument GetUri(string strURI){			
			
            // Create a request object
			HttpWebRequest myRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(strURI);

            // Obtain the response from the server
			HttpWebResponse myResponse = (HttpWebResponse)myRequest.GetResponse();            
            Stream myResponseStream = myResponse.GetResponseStream();
			
            // Load the result into an XML document
			XmlDocument myDoc = new XmlDocument();            
            myDoc.Load(myResponseStream);

            // return the XML document
			return myDoc;			
		}
	}