C# WebResponse.GetResponseStream

 

// Create a 'WebRequest' object with the specified url. 
 WebRequest myWebRequest = WebRequest.Create("http://www.contoso.com"); 

// Send the 'WebRequest' and wait for response.
WebResponse myWebResponse = myWebRequest.GetResponse(); 

// Obtain a 'Stream' object associated with the response object.
Stream ReceiveStream = myWebResponse.GetResponseStream();
            
Encoding encode = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("utf-8");

    // Pipe the stream to a higher level stream reader with the required encoding format. 
 StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader( ReceiveStream, encode );
 Console.WriteLine("\nResponse stream received");
 Char[] read = new Char[256];

    // Read 256 charcters at a time.    
 int count = readStream.Read( read, 0, 256 );
    Console.WriteLine("HTML...\r\n");

while (count > 0) 
{
        // Dump the 256 characters on a string and display the string onto the console.
    String str = new String(read, 0, count);
    Console.Write(str);
    count = readStream.Read(read, 0, 256);
}

   Console.WriteLine("");
 // Release the resources of stream object.
 readStream.Close();

 // Release the resources of response object.
 myWebResponse.Close();