HttpWebRequest is extremely slow!

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What I have found to be the main culprit with slow web requests is the proxy property. If you set this property to null before you call the GetResponse method the query will skip the proxy autodetect step:

request.Proxy = null;
using (var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
{
}

The proxy autodetect was taking up to 7 seconds to query before returning the response. It is a little annoying that this property is set on by default for the HttpWebRequest object.

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