I get a System.NullReferenceException when trying to use HttpWebReaspone on xamarin

Issue

When I tried this code in a normal Console app project it works, but it doesnt work on xamarin, the exception occurs in

" using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse()) "

                string html = string.Empty;
                string url = $"https://stackoverflow.com/";
                HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
                request.AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.GZip;
                using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
                using (Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream())
                using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream))
                {
                    html = reader.ReadToEnd();
                }

Solution

I'd suggest trying HttpClient instead

var client = new HttpClient();
var response = await client.GetAsync("http://www.contoso.com/");
string responseBody = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

Answered By - Jason