C#

public static string GetHTMLStringWin(string url)
     {
         StringBuilder html = new StringBuilder();
         string htmlToRet = null;
         try
         {
             //-- Make an HTTP web request to retrieve content --//
             HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
             request.Timeout = 30000;
             HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
             Stream htmlStream = response.GetResponseStream();
             string temp = null;
             byte[] buffer = new byte[9000];
             int counter = 0;

             do
             {
                 counter = htmlStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
                 if (counter != 0)
                 {
                     //-- The encoding is set to UTF-8 --//
                     temp = Encoding.GetEncoding("windows-1252").GetString(buffer, 0, counter);
                     //temp = Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1").GetString(buffer, 0, counter);
                     html.Append(temp);
                 }

             }
             while (counter > 0);

             htmlToRet = html.ToString();
         }
         catch
         {
             htmlToRet = null;
             //-- Add Exception Logic here --//
         }
         return htmlToRet;
     }