Определите, содержит ли текстовое поле допустимый URL-адрес (обратите внимание на строку: Если hwresponse.StatusCode = Net.HttpStatusCode.OK, то есть квитанция для подтверждения не 404):
Dim wData as String = WRequest("http://server/sfasnasjnksa", "GET", "")
Function WRequest(URL As String, method As String, POSTdata As String) As String
Dim responseData As String = ""
Try
Dim hwrequest As Net.HttpWebRequest = Net.Webrequest.Create(URL)
hwrequest.Accept = "*/*"
hwrequest.AllowAutoRedirect = true
hwrequest.UserAgent = "http_requester/0.1"
hwrequest.Timeout = 60000
hwrequest.Method = method
If hwrequest.Method = "POST" Then
hwrequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
Dim encoding As New Text.ASCIIEncoding() 'Use UTF8Encoding for XML requests
Dim postByteArray() As Byte = encoding.GetBytes(POSTdata)
hwrequest.ContentLength = postByteArray.Length
Dim postStream As IO.Stream = hwrequest.GetRequestStream()
postStream.Write(postByteArray, 0, postByteArray.Length)
postStream.Close()
End If
Dim hwresponse As Net.HttpWebResponse = hwrequest.GetResponse()
If hwresponse.StatusCode = Net.HttpStatusCode.OK Then
Dim responseStream As IO.StreamReader = _
New IO.StreamReader(hwresponse.GetResponseStream())
responseData = responseStream.ReadToEnd()
End If
hwresponse.Close()
Catch e As Exception
responseData = "An error occurred: " & e.Message
End Try
Return responseData
End Function