Read text from response

Question

HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(\"http://google.com\") as HttpWebRequest;  

request.Accept = \"application/xrds+xml\";  
HttpWebResponse response = (Http         


        

Answer 1

This article gives a good overview of using the HttpWebResponse object:How to use HttpWebResponse

Relevant bits below:

HttpWebResponse webresponse;

webresponse = (HttpWebResponse)webrequest.GetResponse();

Encoding enc = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1252);
StreamReader loResponseStream = new StreamReader(webresponse.GetResponseStream(),enc);

string Response = loResponseStream.ReadToEnd();

loResponseStream.Close();
webresponse.Close();

return Response;