How to perform a fast web request in C#

Question

I have a HTTP based API which I potentially need to call many times. The problem is that I can\'t get the request to take less than about 20 seconds, though the same reques

Answer 1

You don't close your Request. As soon as you hit the number of allowed connections, you have to wait for the earlier ones to time out. Try

using (var response = g.GetResponse())
{
    // do stuff with your response
}