reading only the first 30 bytes of an HTML file with xml object

[ergun]

Hi,

I wonder if there is a way to read only the first x bytes of a xml
responsetext. In my project I need only first 20-30 bytes of very large

HTML files and i don't want to wait for the rest to be read. Here is a
piece of code i use ;
Dim xml As New MSXML2.XMLHTTP
xml.Open "GET", address , False
xml.Send
MsgBox Left(CStr(xml.responseText),25), vbInformation, "Info..."

This code does the thing i want but i have to wait for all the body to
be read and only after that time i can parse the text. I want to stop
the process after 30. byte is read because of timing issues.

I also tried Inet control and saw a method like getChunk() which can
read the block mentioned but could not managed to use it.

If there is a way to overcome this problem or another control to read
HTML incredient please share with me.
Thanks in advance.

[Brad Wood]

Perhaps you could use HttpWebRequset.BeginGetResponse / EndGetResponse.
The entire response is returned but the call is asynchronous so you
would be able to do other processing while waiting for the callback...

ergun wrote:

Hi,

I wonder if there is a way to read only the first x bytes of a xml
responsetext. In my project I need only first 20-30 bytes of very large

HTML files and i don't want to wait for the rest to be read. Here is a
piece of code i use ;
Dim xml As New MSXML2.XMLHTTP
xml.Open "GET", address , False
xml.Send
MsgBox Left(CStr(xml.responseText),25), vbInformation, "Info..."

This code does the thing i want but i have to wait for all the body to
be read and only after that time i can parse the text. I want to stop
the process after 30. byte is read because of timing issues.

I also tried Inet control and saw a method like getChunk() which can
read the block mentioned but could not managed to use it.

If there is a way to overcome this problem or another control to read
HTML incredient please share with me.
Thanks in advance.