What is the best way to read GetResponseStream()?

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My simple way of doing it to a string. Note the true second parameter on the StreamReader constructor. This tells it to detect the encoding from the byte order marks and may help with the encoding issue you are getting as well.

string target = string.Empty;
HttpWebRequest httpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=dotnet&seqNum=583");

HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)httpWebRequest.GetResponse();
try
{
  StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream(),true);                
  try
  {
    target = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
  }
  finally
  {
    streamReader.Close();
  }
}
finally
{
  response.Close();
}

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