Add this helper function into your CHtmlView-derived class to retrieve the html source. Remember to check the returned boolean state from this function as com-interface can be quite unreliable when system resources are low.
/* ============================================== */
BOOL CTest1View::GetHtmlText(CString &strHtmlText)
{
BOOL bState = FALSE;
// get IDispatch interface of the active document object
IDispatch *pDisp = this->GetHtmlDocument();
if (pDisp != NULL)
{ // get the IHTMLDocument3 interface
IHTMLDocument3 *pDoc = NULL;
HRESULT hr = pDisp->QueryInterface(IID_IHTMLDocument3, (void**) &pDoc);
if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
{ // get root element
IHTMLElement *pRootElement = NULL;
hr = pDoc->get_documentElement(&pRootElement);
if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
{ // get html text into bstr
BSTR bstrHtmlText;
hr = pRootElement->get_outerHTML(&bstrHtmlText);
if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
{ // convert bstr to CString
strHtmlText = bstrHtmlText;
bState = TRUE;
SysFreeString(bstrHtmlText);
}
pRootElement->Release();
}
pDoc->Release();
}
pDisp->Release();
}
return bState;
}