Creating and sending an HTTP GET request C# with Example

using System.Net; 
using System.IO; 
... 
string requestUrl = "https://www.example.com/page.html"; 
HttpWebRequest request = HttpWebRequest.CreateHttp(requestUrl); 
//  Optionally,  set  properties   of   the   HttpWebRequest,   such   as: 
request.AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.GZip | DecompressionMethods.Deflate; 
request.Timeout = 2 * 60 * 1000; // 2 minutes, in milliseconds 
// Submit the request, and get the response body. 
string responseBodyFromRemoteServer; 
using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse()) 
{ 
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())) 
{ 
responseBodyFromRemoteServer = reader.ReadToEnd(); 
} 
 

}