Am I able to reuse a HttpWebRequest?

Question

Am I able to reuse a HttpWebRequest?

It seems like the 3rd request to a site causes a operation to time out. It seems like each request creates a new connection, so

Answer 1

Wrap your response call in a using statement to ensure that the connection is always closed:

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(url)
// ...
using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
{
  // ...
}

Also wrap any GetResponseStream() in a using statement.