GitHub

Memory leak in HttpWebRequest / HttpWebResponse when using a WebProxy

This is a follow-on of sorts to bug #7356. The test is essentially the same thing except through a WebProxy. You should see lists of allocations of System.Byte[] and System.String that grow ...
GitHub

ReadByte() from HttpWebRequest is slow.

Setup an Http Server on localhost. I setup http-server which can be easily installed with nodejs via npm " npm install http-server -g" see https://github.com ...
InfoWorld

When to use WebClient vs. HttpClient vs. HttpWebRequest

Understand the pros and cons of the .Net Framework's various native classes for working with HTTP requests and responses You have three different choices for consuming REST APIs when working in the ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Calling Web Services with HttpWebRequest, WebClient and HttpClient

The .NET Framework gives you three different ways to call a Web Service. However, depending on your scenario, the latest and greatest object isn’t necessarily your best choice. If you’re going to call ...
Ars Technica

C# HttpWebRequest - Keep connection alive?

I'm trying to write a web scraper application that grabs a few web pages and parses data out. The one site I've been using works fine with the KeepAlive property set to true and the connection will ...