Locate string on webpage

Author: Charles Stanley

URL: http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2339

// Locate string on webpage

        private bool SearchPage(string URL, string StrToLocate)
        {
                StreamReader SR;
                WebResponse Resp ;
                WebRequest MyWebRequest;
                string PageStr;

                MyWebRequest = WebRequest.Create(URL) ;
                MyWebRequest.Timeout = 10000 ;
        try
        {
                Resp = MyWebRequest.GetResponse() ;
                SR = new StreamReader(Resp.GetResponseStream()) ;
                PageStr = SR.ReadToEnd() ;
                SR.Close() ;

                PageStr = PageStr.ToUpper();
                if ( PageStr.IndexOf(StrToLocate.ToUpper(), 0, PageStr.Length) != -1 )
                        return true;
                else
                        return false;
        }

        catch ( WebException wex )
        {
                if (wex.Status == WebExceptionStatus.Timeout)
                        Response.Write("The request has timed out!") ;

                else
                        Response.Write("There was some exception: " +  wex.Message) ;

                return false;
        }

}