calling an http url from a .net console application?

Question

Is it possible to call an http url from a .net console application? can anyone give an idea.?

Answer 1

Here is a nice example if you are trying to fetch HTML from a web page using HTTP.

UPDATE: As you have posted in comment that only thing you expect in response is a string would be good to use WebClient as Chris Fulstow says in his answer.

System.Net.WebClient().DownloadString(url)