Dynamic HTML content capture from ASP and ASP.NET

Question

How to capture the dynamic HTML content from ASP.NET button click event?

The same functionality for ASP as well.

Please guide me on this.

Answer 1

Please check below link also : http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/2004/Jun/08/Capturing-Output-from-ASPNet-Pages

Good question, i had to try out and see if i could create a HttpModule to do what you are describing.

I didnt have any luck trying to read from the responsestream, but using the ResponseFilter gave me a way to capture the content.

The following code seems to work pretty good, and i figured maybe you could use the code as a base. But remember this is just something i threw together fast, it has not been tested in any way. So dont use it in any production environment without proper reviewing/testing and such. Feel free to comment on it though ;)

public class ResponseLoggerModule : IHttpModule
{
    private class ResponseCaptureStream : Stream
    {
        private readonly Stream _streamToCapture;
        private readonly Encoding _responseEncoding;

        private string _streamContent;
        public string StreamContent
        {
            get { return _streamContent; }
            private set
            {
                _streamContent = value;
            }
        }

        public ResponseCaptureStream(Stream streamToCapture, Encoding responseEncoding)
        {
            _responseEncoding = responseEncoding;
            _streamToCapture = streamToCapture;

        }

        public override bool CanRead
        {
            get { return _streamToCapture.CanRead; }
        }

        public override bool CanSeek
        {
            get { return _streamToCapture.CanSeek; }
        }

        public override bool CanWrite
        {
            get { return _streamToCapture.CanWrite; }
        }

        public override void Flush()
        {
            _streamToCapture.Flush();
        }

        public override long Length
        {
            get { return _streamToCapture.Length; }
        }

        public override long Position
        {
            get
            {
                return _streamToCapture.Position;
            }
            set
            {
                _streamToCapture.Position = value;
            }
        }

        public override int Read(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
        {
            return _streamToCapture.Read(buffer, offset, count);
        }

        public override long Seek(long offset, SeekOrigin origin)
        {
            return _streamToCapture.Seek(offset, origin);
        }

        public override void SetLength(long value)
        {
            _streamToCapture.SetLength(value);
        }

        public override void Write(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
        {
            _streamContent += _responseEncoding.GetString(buffer);
            _streamToCapture.Write(buffer, offset, count);
        }

        public override void Close()
        {
            _streamToCapture.Close();
            base.Close();
        }
    }

    #region IHttpModule Members

    private HttpApplication _context;
    public void Dispose()
    {

    }

    public void Init(HttpApplication context)
    {
        _context = context;

        context.PreRequestHandlerExecute += new EventHandler(context_PreRequestHandlerExecute);
        context.PreSendRequestContent += new EventHandler(context_PreSendRequestContent);
    }

    void context_PreRequestHandlerExecute(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        _context.Response.Filter = new ResponseCaptureStream(_context.Response.Filter, _context.Response.ContentEncoding);
    }

    void context_PreSendRequestContent(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        ResponseCaptureStream filter = _context.Response.Filter as ResponseCaptureStream;

        if (filter != null)
        {
            string responseText = filter.StreamContent;

            // Logging logic here
        }
    }

    #endregion
}

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