just tried this:
static void testGetXmlDocFromWebRequest()
{
string response = string.Empty;
string url = "your-url";
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url);
try
{
using (StreamReader streamIn = new StreamReader((request.GetResponse()).GetResponseStream()))
{
response = streamIn.ReadToEnd();
streamIn.Close();
}
}
finally
{
request.Abort();
}
XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Parse(response);
}
and it worked. Taken from:
here