>>>There was a bad object being used. This had to be HttpWebResponse instead of WebResponse. I also added the close of the objects.
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>>(1) The close statements are not where they should be.
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>From various locations, this is where the example and documentation stated to place them.



I think that the examples are a bit sloppy

If something fails in the Try branch - it is possible that the object(s) won't exist
If you try Close() on a null reference - you'll get an exception



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>>(2) Don't you have to close loStream ?
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>In those places, this does not seem to be needed.
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>>Why not 3 nested 'using' ?
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>That could work also.