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I have an application written in VB.NET ( NOT asp.net, it is a Windows Console app). I am trying to call a url (an html page) and get back the response into a string. The response is straight JSON, no html tags whatsoever. It opens with { and closes with } . I create the HttpWebRequest object fine. Then call req.GetResponse() . As soon as I do this I get the error The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly. I've been googling and checking stackoverflow, and tried everything I've found that applies (a lot of it has to do with WCF service configurations, which don't apply). Here is my code: Public Function GetJSON(ByRef d As db.Device) As Boolean Try d.Url = "http://" & d.IpAddress & ini.doc.<svc>.<url>.Value Dim req As HttpWebRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create(d.Url) // req.Accept = "*/*" // req.Timeout = 30000 // req.ReadWriteTimeout = 30000 // req.KeepAlive = False // req.UseDefaultCredentials = True // req.CachePolicy = HttpWebRequest.DefaultCachePolicy // req.Proxy = HttpWebRequest.DefaultWebProxy // req.ProtocolVersion = New System.Version(1, 0) Dim rsp As HttpWebResponse = req.GetResponse() Return True Catch ex As Exception Log(ex.Message) Return False Finally rsp = Nothing req = Nothing End Try End Function The commented out lines (wrong comment style, but so SO will parse it right) are all the things I have tried so far based on what I've found online. None of them fixed it. I have verified that the URL being built is correct; if I call the exact same URL in my browser it gives back exactly the right expected response. I've tried wiresharking it... and i see the actual expected, complete data come back in the shark output, and then a few

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