The WebResponse class is the abstract base class from which protocol-specific response classes are derived. Applications can participate in request and response transactions in a protocol-agnostic manner using instances of the WebResponse class while protocol-specific classes derived from WebResponse carry out the details of the request.

Client applications do not create WebResponse objects directly; they are created by calling the GetResponse method on a WebRequest instance.

When you inherit from WebResponse, you must override the following members: ContentLength, ContentType, GetResponseStream, ResponseUri, and Headers.

The following example creates a WebResponse instance from a WebRequest.

' Initialize the WebRequest.
Dim myRequest As WebRequest = WebRequest.Create("http://www.contoso.com")

' Return the response. 
Dim myResponse As WebResponse = myRequest.GetResponse()

' Code to use the WebResponse goes here.
' Close the response to free resources.
myResponse.Close()

// Initialize the WebRequest.
WebRequest* myRequest = WebRequest::Create(S"http://www.contoso.com");

// Return the response. 
WebResponse* myResponse = myRequest->GetResponse();

// Code to use the WebResponse goes here.

// Close the response to free resources.
myResponse->Close();

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.NET Framework

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