static void Request(Uri selectedUri)
    {
        HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(selectedUri);
        request.ServicePoint.BindIPEndPointDelegate = BindIPEndPointCallback;
        request.Method ="GET";
        request.Timeout = (int)Timeout.TotalMilliseconds;
        request.ReadWriteTimeout = (int)Timeout.TotalMilliseconds;
        request.CachePolicy = CachePolicy;
        request.UserAgent = UserAgent;

        using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
        {
            using (StreamReader responseReader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
            {
                string responseText = responseReader.ReadToEnd();
                File.WriteAllText(UrlFileName, responseText.Trim(), Encoding.ASCII);
            }
        }
     }

def request():
web = httplib.HTTPConnection('https://someurl.com');
headers = {"Content-type":"application/x-www-form-urlencoded","Accept":"text/plain"}
web.request("GET","/heartbeat.jsp", headers);
response = web.getresponse();
stream =""; #something is wrong here

import urllib2
content = urllib2.urlopen(some_url).read()
print content

import httplib
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.python.org")
conn.request("HEAD","/index.html")
res = conn.getresponse()
print res.status, res.reason
# Result:
200 OK

import requests
r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/user', auth=('user', 'pass'))
r.status_code
# Result:
200

import urllib2
f =  urllib2.urlopen(url)
print f.read()