urlread_General.m

function [s,status] = urlread_General(url,varargin)
%URLREAD Returns the contents of a URL as a string.
%   S = URLREAD('URL') reads the content at a URL into a string, S.  If the
%   server returns binary data, the string will contain garbage.
%
%   S = URLREAD('URL','method',PARAMS) passes information to the server as
%   part of the request.  The 'method' can be 'get', or 'post' and PARAMS is a 
%   cell array of param/value pairs.
%
%   S = URLREAD(...,'Timeout',T) sets a timeout, in seconds, when the function
%   will error rather than continue to wait for the server to respond or send
%   data.
%
%   [S,STATUS] = URLREAD(...) catches any errors and returns 1 if the file
%   downloaded successfully and 0 otherwise.
%
%   Examples:
%   s = urlread('http://www.mathworks.com')
%   s = urlread('ftp://ftp.mathworks.com/README')
%   s = urlread(['file:///' fullfile(prefdir,'history.m')])
% 
%   From behind a firewall, use the Preferences to set your proxy server.
%
%   See also URLWRITE.

%   Matthew J. Simoneau, 13-Nov-2001
%   Copyright 1984-2011 The MathWorks, Inc.

% Do we want to throw errors or catch them?
if nargout == 2
    catchErrors = true;
else
    catchErrors = false;
end

[s,status] = urlreadwrite_General(mfilename,catchErrors,url,varargin{:});