What makes this HTTPS WebRequest time out even though it works in the browser?

Question

Here\'s my request:

var request = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(\"https://mtgox.com/\");
request.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer();
request.AllowA         


        

Answer 1

I had the same timeout issue with https requests and none of the answers helped me. Just now I found a solution that resolved the problem for me. Note that this works only with .net framework 4.5 or higher.

System.Net.ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12 | SecurityProtocolType.Tls11 | SecurityProtocolType.Tls;
var response = WebRequest.Create("https://yoursecurewebservice").GetResponse();
var body = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();
Console.WriteLine(body);