Connect To Web Server Using TcpClient In C#

This snippet connects to a web server and requests for a page. It uses the TcpClient to send header information to the server.

1. using System;
2. using System.Net;
3. using System.Net.Sockets;
4. using System.IO;
6. class Program
7. {
8.     static void Main(string[] args)
9.     {
10.         string host = "";
11.         string file = "";
12.         try
13.         {
14.             TcpClient tcpClient = new TcpClient(host, 80);
16.             NetworkStream nStream = tcpClient.GetStream();
17.             StreamReader sReader = new StreamReader(nStream);
18.             StreamWriter sWriter = new StreamWriter(nStream);
21.             sWriter.WriteLine("GET /" + file + " HTTP/1.1");
22.             sWriter.WriteLine("Host: " + host);
23.             sWriter.WriteLine("");
24.             sWriter.Flush();
26.             String response = "";
28.             while ((response = sReader.ReadLine()) != null)
29.             {
30.                 Console.WriteLine(sReader.ReadLine());
31.             }
32.         }
33.         catch (Exception e)
34.         {
35.             Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
36.         }
37.         Console.ReadKey();
38.     }
39. }