This is one way to download a web page.

Download web page

/// <summary>
/// Returns the content of a given web adress as string.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="Url">URL of the webpage</param>
/// <returns>Website content</returns>
public static string DownloadWebPage(string Url)
{
    
    string strWebPage = "";

     try
     {
            // create request 
            System.Net.WebRequest objRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(Url);
            // get response 
            System.Net.HttpWebResponse objResponse;
            objResponse = (System.Net.HttpWebResponse)objRequest.GetResponse();
            // get correct charset and encoding from the server's header 
            string Charset = objResponse.CharacterSet;
            Encoding encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding(Charset);
            // read response 
            using (StreamReader sr =
                   new StreamReader(objResponse.GetResponseStream(), encoding))
            {
                strWebPage = sr.ReadToEnd();
                // Close and clean up the StreamReader 
                sr.Close();
            }

            // Check real charset meta-tag in HTML 
            int CharsetStart = strWebPage.IndexOf("charset=");
            if (CharsetStart > 0)
            {
                CharsetStart += 8;
                int CharsetEnd = strWebPage.IndexOfAny(new[] { ' ', '\"', ';' }, CharsetStart);
                string RealCharset =
                       strWebPage.Substring(CharsetStart, CharsetEnd - CharsetStart);

                // real charset meta-tag in HTML differs from supplied server header??? 
                if (RealCharset != Charset)
                {
                    // get correct encoding 
                    Encoding CorrectEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding(RealCharset);

                    // read the web page again, but with correct encoding this time
                    //   create request 
                    System.Net.WebRequest objRequest2 = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(Url);
                    //   get response 
                    System.Net.HttpWebResponse objResponse2;
                    objResponse2 = (System.Net.HttpWebResponse)objRequest2.GetResponse();
                    //   read response 
                    using (StreamReader sr =
                    new StreamReader(objResponse2.GetResponseStream(), CorrectEncoding))
                    {
                        strWebPage = sr.ReadToEnd();
                        // Close and clean up the StreamReader 
                        sr.Close();
                    }

                }
            }

     }
     catch (Exception ex)
     {
         Log.Add(LogTypes.Error, 0, "Newsletter Studio error in DownloadWebPage()" + ex.InnerException);

         throw new WebException("Could not load url: " + Url + ". Inner exception: " + ex.InnerException);
     }

    return strWebPage;

}