webrequest.begingetresponse is taking too much time when the url is invalid

Question

I am using webrequest to fetch some image data. The url may be invaild sometime. In case of invalid URL, begingetresponse is taking time equals to timeout period. Also the c

Answer 1

looks like this is an issue with .NET. BeginGetResponse blocks until DNS is resolved. In case of wrong URL (like http://somecrap) it tries until it gets timeout. See the following links - link1 and link2