How to: Access HTTP-Specific Properties
This sample shows how to turn off the HTTP Keep-alive behavior and get the protocol version number from the Web server.
Example
Dim HttpWReq As HttpWebRequest= _
CType(WebRequest.Create("https://www.contoso.com"), HttpWebRequest)
' Turn off connection keep-alives.
HttpWReq.KeepAlive = False
Dim HttpWResp As HttpWebResponse = _
CType(HttpWReq.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
' Get the HTTP protocol version number returned by the server.
Dim ver As String = HttpWResp.ProtocolVersion.ToString()
HttpWResp.Close()
HttpWebRequest HttpWReq =
(HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://www.contoso.com");
// Turn off connection keep-alives.
HttpWReq.KeepAlive = false;
HttpWebResponse HttpWResp = (HttpWebResponse)HttpWReq.GetResponse();
// Get the HTTP protocol version number returned by the server.
String ver = HttpWResp.ProtocolVersion.ToString();
HttpWResp.Close();
Compiling the Code
This example requires:
- References to the System.Net namespace.