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How to Retrieve HTTP content in .NET

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HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse greatly simplified http content retrial process. Code snippet below demonstrated how easy to use.

using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
 
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    string webUrl = "http://www.google.com";
    WebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(webUrl);
    req.Timeout = 10000;
    WebResponse resp = req.GetResponse();
    StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream(), Encoding.ASCII);
    Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd());
    resp.Close(); // Close the response to free resources.
    reader.Close();
}

Simple and elegant. To look for more…Retrieving HTTP content in .NET