title: HttpWebRequest.GetResponse always times out no matter what
body: <p>I am unable to make a post request to a URL using HttpWebRequest. I have applied all the suggestions I have seen online. Most answers on SO suggest specifying a user agent. I have done that and provided a timeout as well but still I get a timeout. I saw another post where it was mentioned to specify readwritetimeout instead. Still I get the same response, "Server Timed out". Making the post using a browser works within a second, but using code in C# gives the timeout issue. Here is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>        HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(Url); 
          request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
          request.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2288.6 Safari/537.36";
          request.Method = "POST";
          request.KeepAlive = true;
          request.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer();
          request.Accept = "*/*";
          request.ReadWriteTimeout = System.Threading.Timeout.Infinite;
          request.Headers.Add("Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate");
          request.Headers.Add("Accept-Language: en-US");
          byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
          request.ContentLength = byteArray.Length;
          Stream dataStream = request.GetRequestStream();
          dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
          dataStream.Close();
          HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
  
          dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
          StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
          string Response = reader.ReadToEnd();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am getting a timeout at this line:</p>
  
  <pre><code>HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Am I missing something here?</p>
  
  <p>Here is the log after switching on diagonostics in the config.</p>
  
  <pre><code>System.Net Verbose: 0 : [0280] WebRequest::Create(http://mysite.url.here)
  System.Net Verbose: 0 : [0280] HttpWebRequest#13062350::HttpWebRequest(http://mysite.url.here)
  System.Net Information: 0 : [0280] Current OS installation type is 'Client'.
  System.Net Information: 0 : [0280] RAS supported: True
  System.Net Verbose: 0 : [0280] Exiting HttpWebRequest#13062350::HttpWebRequest()
  
  System.Net Verbose: 0 : [0280] Exiting WebRequest::Create()     -&gt; HttpWebRequest#13062350
  System.Net Error: 0 : [0280] Can't retrieve proxy settings for Uri 'http://mysite.url.here'. Error code: 12180.
  System.Net Verbose: 0 : [0280] ServicePoint#10366524::ServicePoint(http://mysite.url.here:80)
  System.Net Information: 0 : [0280] Associating HttpWebRequest#13062350 with ServicePoint#10366524
  System.Net Verbose: 0 : [0280] HttpWebRequest#13062350::GetRequestStream()
  System.Net Information: 0 : [0280] Associating Connection#63840421 with HttpWebRequest#13062350
  System.Net Information: 0 : [0280] Connection#63840421 - Created connection from 192.168.1.5:13902 to 199.249.234.200:80.
  System.Net Information: 0 : [0280] Associating HttpWebRequest#13062350 with ConnectStream#54246671
  System.Net Information: 0 : [0280] HttpWebRequest#13062350 - Request: POST /Post-url-here HTTP/1.1
  
  System.Net Information: 0 : [0280] ConnectStream#54246671 - Sending headers
  {
  Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, likeGecko) Chrome/42.0.2288.6 Safari/537.36
  Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
  Accept-Language: en-US
  Cache-Control: max-age=0
  Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
  Host: www.powersportrider.com
  Content-Length: 101
  Expect: 100-continue
  Connection: Keep-Alive
  }.
  
  System.Net Verbose: 0 : [0280] Exiting ConnectStream#54246671::Write()
  System.Net Verbose: 0 : [0280] ConnectStream#54246671::Close()
  System.Net Verbose: 0 : [0280] Exiting ConnectStream#54246671::Close()
  System.Net Verbose: 0 : [0280] HttpWebRequest#13062350::GetResponse()
  System.Net Information: 0 : [0280] Connection#63840421 - Received status line: V
  ersion=1.1, StatusCode=100, StatusDescription=Continue.
  System.Net Information: 0 : [0280] Connection#63840421 - Received headers
  {
  
  }.
  
  
  System.Net Verbose: 0 : [8668] HttpWebRequest#13062350::Abort(The operation hastimed out)
  System.Net Verbose: 0 : [8668] Exiting HttpWebRequest#13062350::Abort()
  System.Net Error: 0 : [0280] Exception in HttpWebRequest#13062350:: - The operation has timed out.
  System.Net Error: 0 : [0280] Exception in HttpWebRequest#13062350::GetResponse - The operation has timed out.
  System.Net Error: 0 : [0280] Exception in AppDomain#12036987::UnhandledException
  Handler - The operation has timed out.   at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
  </code></pre>