C# Download data from huge list of urls [duplicate]

Answer 1

you can try using HttpClient a new addition in .Net 4.5 it consider to be be faster and it might improve your performance a little

using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient())
using (HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync(url))
using (HttpContent content = response.Content)
{

    string result = await content.ReadAsStringAsync();


}