HttpWebRequest Vs webclient class who is better

c# asp.net performance httpwebrequest httpwebresponse
anirudha Gupta picture anirudha Gupta · Dec 1, 2009 · Viewed 10.2k times · Source

Possible Duplicate:
WebClient vs. HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse

I can't guess who is better

HttpWebRequest or webclient

Can you suggest me which one is better in terms of performance

Answer

James Alexander picture James Alexander · Dec 1, 2009

I'd recommend testing the performance w/ what you want to do in both instances. I believe though that WebClient is simply a helper that implements HttpWebRequest under the hood.

Related questions

Is String.Contains() faster than String.IndexOf()?

I have a string buffer of about 2000 characters and need to check the buffer if it contains a specific string. Will do the check in a ASP.NET 2.0 webapp for every webrequest. Does anyone know if the String.Contains method …

Read More
Reloading configuration without restarting application using ConfigurationManager.RefreshSection

Has anyone got this working in a web application? No matter what I do it seems that my appSettings section (redirected from web.config using appSettings file=".\Site\site.config") does not get reloaded. Am I doomed to the case …

Read More
Dispose the connection or Close the connection

Which one of the following two methods has better performance ? using( var DB_Connection_s = new DBConnection() ) { //todo: interact with database connection } or just : DB_Connection_s.Close(); at the end. Does the first method make the pooling concept useless? …

Read More