HttpWebRequest.GetResponse does not return AutoID for server side controls

[tommyjam]

In .NET by default the client side ID's, for server side controls, get concatenated with generated text.For example: \[code\]<asp:TextBox ID="txtUser" runat="server">\[/code\]would become...\[code\]<input type="text" id="ctl00_body_txbUser">\[/code\]However when I use HttpWebRequest.GetResponse(objReq.Getresponse, HttpWebResponse) to request the same page the item comes back without the auto generated text.\[code\]<input type="text" id="txbUser">\[/code\]Is it possible to use an HttpWebRequest object and GetResponse in such a way that it returns a response with the Auto generated ID's .NET uses for server side controls?I am working with a 3rd party that has previously set up translation rules specific to ID, now we are attempting have the same rules work against an API call passed a string generated from the page. However, the string generated from the page does not have the same IDs.Below is code being used to return the Web Page as a string.\[code\]Public Shared Function GetWebPageAsString(ByVal strURI As String, ByVal strPostData As String) As String ' Declare our variables. ' Dim objHttpRequest As HttpWebRequest Dim PostBuffer() As Byte Dim PostDataStream As Stream = Nothing Dim objHttpResponse As HttpWebResponse = Nothing Dim objStreamReader As StreamReader = Nothing Dim strResponseText As String = "" Try ' Create a new request. ' objHttpRequest = CType(WebRequest.Create(strURI), HttpWebRequest) objHttpRequest.Timeout = 3000000 objHttpRequest.Method = "POST" PostBuffer = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(strPostData) objHttpRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" objHttpRequest.ContentLength = PostBuffer.Length PostDataStream = objHttpRequest.GetRequestStream PostDataStream.Write(PostBuffer, 0, PostBuffer.Length) PostDataStream.Close() ' Get the response to our request as a stream object. ' objHttpResponse = CType(objHttpRequest.GetResponse, HttpWebResponse) ' Create a stream reader to read the data from the stream. ' objStreamReader = New StreamReader(objHttpResponse.GetResponseStream, Encoding.UTF8) ' Copy the text retrieved from the stream to a variable. ' strResponseText = objStreamReader.ReadToEnd() ' Close our objects. ' objStreamReader.Close() objHttpResponse.Close() Catch ex As Exception strResponseText = strURI & " | " & strPostData Throw (ex) Finally If Not objStreamReader Is Nothing Then objStreamReader.Close() End If If Not PostDataStream Is Nothing Then PostDataStream.Close() End If If Not objHttpResponse Is Nothing Then objHttpResponse.Close() End If objHttpRequest = Nothing PostBuffer = Nothing PostDataStream = Nothing objHttpResponse = Nothing objStreamReader = Nothing End Try ' Set return value. ' Return strResponseTextEnd Function\[/code\]