Method for Making a Simple Web Request

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A method for getting the response from a web request made to the specified URL.

A method for getting the response from a web request made to the specified URL:

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public static string makeWebRequest(string host)
{
    var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(new Uri(host));

    var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

    Stream dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
    StreamReader dataread = new StreamReader(dataStream);
    return dataread.ReadToEnd();
}