title: System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive
body: <p>I'm trying to create a method in C# to return a string of a web pages html content from the url.  I have tried several different ways, but I am getting the error <strong>System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive.</strong></p>
  
  <p>The following works fine locally, but gets the above error when running on a remote server:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  public static string WebPageRead(string url)
      {
          string result = String.Empty;
  
          WebResponse response = null;
          StreamReader reader = null;
  
          try
          {
              if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(url))
              {
                  HttpWebRequest request = HttpWebRequest.Create(url) as HttpWebRequest;
                  request.Method = "GET";
                  request.KeepAlive = false;
                  request.ProtocolVersion = HttpVersion.Version10;
  
                  response = request.GetResponse();
                  reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream(), Encoding.UTF8);
                  result = reader.ReadToEnd();
              }
          }
          catch (Exception exc)
          {
              throw exc;
          }
          finally
          {
              if (reader != null)
              {
                  reader.Close();
              }
  
              if (response != null)
              {
                  response.Close();
              }
          }
  
          return result;
      }
  </code></pre>