WebRequest “HEAD” light weight alternative

Question

I recently discovered that the following does not work with certain sites, such as IMDB.com.

class Program
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        static void Main(string[] args)
             


        

Answer 1

Open the connection yourself with a socket (instead of an HttpRequest or WebClient), and close the stream as soon as you've read the status code. Fortunately the status code comes near the top of the response stream :)