Reading data from a website using C#

Question

I have a webpage which has nothing on it except some string(s). No images, no background color or anything, just some plain text which is not really that long in length.

Answer 1

Regarding the suggestion So I would suggest that you use WebClient and investigate the causes of the 30 second delay.

From the answers for the question System.Net.WebClient unreasonably slow

Try setting Proxy = null;

WebClient wc = new WebClient(); wc.Proxy = null;

Credit to Alex Burtsev