How to convert WebResponse.GetResponseStream return into a string?

Question

I see many examples but all of them read them into byte arrays or 256 chars at a time, slowly. Why?

Is it not advisable to just convert the resulting Stream

Answer 1

Richard Schneider is right. use code below to fetch data from site which is not utf8 charset will get wrong string.

using (Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream())
{
   StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream, Encoding.UTF8);
   String responseString = reader.ReadToEnd();
}

" i can't vote.so wrote this.