1 using System;
 2 using System.IO;
 3 using System.Net;
 4 using System.Text;
 5 
 6 namespace Examples.System.Net
 7 {
 8     public class WebRequestGetExample
 9     {
10         public static void Main ()
11         {
12             // Create a request for the URL. 
13             WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create (
14               "http://www.contoso.com/default.html");
15             // If required by the server, set the credentials.
16             request.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
17             // Get the response.
18             WebResponse response = request.GetResponse ();
19             // Display the status.
20             Console.WriteLine (((HttpWebResponse)response).StatusDescription);
21             // Get the stream containing content returned by the server.
22             Stream dataStream = response.GetResponseStream ();
23             // Open the stream using a StreamReader for easy access.
24             StreamReader reader = new StreamReader (dataStream);
25             // Read the content.
26             string responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd ();
27             // Display the content.
28             Console.WriteLine (responseFromServer);
29             // Clean up the streams and the response.
30             reader.Close ();
31             response.Close ();
32         }
33     }
34 }