HttpWebResponse - disposing of a connection properly

Question

I'm working on a download manager in C# and I'm making using of multiple http requests and was wondering how can one make sure a connection properly closed?

Is it enough to call Dispose on the response stream? Do I need to call Close as well? Not sure where things could possibly could go wrong but at some point a web site would become unresponsive.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Wrap your HttpWebResponse in a using block:

using(HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse())
{
    // do stuff here
} // response object is automatically disposed of here.