[DotNetDevelopment] web request VERY slow. Please help me optimize

[JeffNielson]

I have having a tough time getting this to work more quickly.  I do
want it to be read into a text doc before making it an xml doc for
troubleshooting purposes.  the slow step is getting the text doc from
what i can tell.

Thanks.

[code]
//create a place to put input
                string result = "";

                //show format the url
                String address = string.Format(_requestFormat, _key,
location);
                Console.WriteLine(string.Format(_requestFormat, _key,
location));

                // Create the web request
                HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(address) as
HttpWebRequest;

                // Get response
                using (HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse
() as HttpWebResponse)
                {
                    // Get the response stream
                    StreamReader reader = new StreamReader
(response.GetResponseStream());

                    // Read the whole contents and return as a
string
                    result = reader.ReadToEnd();
                }

                //show result;
                Console.WriteLine("outputing data");
                Console.WriteLine(result);
                Console.WriteLine("end of data");

                //store it
                _result = result;

                //get it into xml
                XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
                doc.Load(new StringReader(result));
                _xloc = doc;

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