[DotNetDevelopment] XmlDocument .Load response times

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I am writing my first code to parse an XML response obtained from a
HTML GET response.

The code is very simple :

            // Create a new XmlDocument
            XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

            // Load data
            doc.Load("http://clad01/api/v1/company/list/
521826-440382-681782");

The code is fine in that it beings back the data and I can navigate
the XML structure fine. The problem is the response time, it takes
30-40 seconds for the "doc.Load" call to execute.

The XML document being returned is very small approx 300-400bytes, and
the webserver is a local Apache instance on the same machine. If I
access the URL via a browser the response is instantaneous.

Any ideas on what I can do to speed this up? Is there a better way of
doing this?

thanks
RK