Summary

In this chapter, we took a thorough look at the WebRequest utility class, and how it can be used to handle a wide variety of common network operations within the context of a .NET application. We used the public interface of the class definition to infer the proper use and use cases for the class, as well as identifying the limits of its scope and operations. We considered the proper use and invocation of each of the public properties and methods defined on the base class, and wrote out some broadly applicable examples to demonstrate the simplicity and utility of the class and its children. Then, we considered the three most common concrete sub-classes of WebRequest. We examined some of the nuances between each of them and looked at how they facilitate the specific details of the protocols they were designed to operate over. Now we're ready to look at how to process...