Exception: “URI formats are not supported”

Question

I have an absolute local path pointing to a dir: \"file:\\\\C:\\\\Users\\\\john\\\\documents\\\\visual studio 2010\\\\Projects\\\\proj\"

But when I try

Answer 1

     string ImagePath = "";

        HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(ImagePath);
        string a = "";
        try
        {
            HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse(); 
            Stream receiveStream = response.GetResponseStream();
            if (receiveStream.CanRead)
            { a = "OK"; }
        }

        catch { }