Request Web Page in c# spoofing the Host

Question

I need to create a request for a web page delivered to our web sites, but I need to be able to set the host header information too. I have tried this using HttpWebRequest,

Answer 1

I had a problem where the URL dns I used had several different IP addresses, I wanted to call each address separately using the same dns name in the host - the solution is using a proxy:

string retVal = "";
            // Can't change the 'Host' header property because .NET protects it
            // HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
            // request.Headers.Set(HttpRequestHeader.Host, DEPLOYER_HOST);
            // so we must use a workaround
            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
            request.Proxy = new WebProxy(ip);
            using (WebResponse response = request.GetResponse())
            {
                using (TextReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
                {
                    string line;
                    while ((line = reader.ReadLine()) != null)
                        retVal += line;
                }
            }
            return retVal;

Host header is set from 'url' automatically by .NET, and 'ip' contains the actual address of the web server you want to contact (you can use a dns name here too)