Fastest C# Code to Download a Web Page

Question

Given a URL, what would be the most efficient code to download the contents of that web page? I am only considering the HTML, not associated images, JS and CSS.

Answer 1

here is my answer ,a method that takes a URL and return a string

public static string downloadWebPage(string theURL)
    {
        //### download a web page to a string
        WebClient client = new WebClient();

        client.Headers.Add("user-agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.0.3705;)");

        Stream data = client.OpenRead(theURL);
        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(data);
        string s = reader.ReadToEnd();
        return s;
    }