HttpWebRequest runs slowly first time within SQLCLR

Question

When making an HttpWebRequest within a CLR stored procedure (as per the code below), the first invocation after the Sql Server is (re-)started or after a given (but indeterminat

Answer 1

This was a problem for me using HttpWebRequest at first. It's due to the the class looking for a proxy to use. If you set the object's Proxy value to null/Nothing, it'll zip right along.