Killing HttpWebRequest object using Thread.Abort

Question

All, I am trying to cancel two concurrent HttpWebRequests using a method similar to the code below (shown in pseudo-ish C#).

The Main method creates two threads whic

Answer 1

A ThreadAbortException is highly non-specific. HttpWebRequest already supports a way to cancel the request in a predictable way with the Abort() method. I recommend you use it instead.

Note that you'll still get a WebException on the thread, designed to tell you that the request got aborted externally. Be prepared to catch it.