C# : Dealing with HttpWebResponse timeout problems

I have a big problem dealing with data I try to download in my Application over the internet via HttpWebResponse. My code looks like that: ``` myWebRequest.Timeout = 10000; using (HttpWebResponse myWebResponse = (HttpWebResponse)myWebRequest.GetResponse()) { using (Stream ReceiveStream = myWebResponse.GetResponseStream()) { Encoding encode = Encoding.GetEncoding("utf-8"); StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader(ReceiveStream, encode); // Read 1024 characters at a time. Char[] read = new Char[1024]; int count = readStream.Read(read, 0, 1024); int break_counter = 0; while (count > 0 && break_counter < 10000) { String str = new String(read, 0, count); buffer += str; count = readStream.Read(read, 0, 1024); break_counter++; } } } ``` This code runs in a few instances in separated threads so it's a little bit hard to debug. The problem is this method got stuck and I blame it on the poor connection to the data. As you can see I already set a timeout and was hoping the code would just terminate after the timeout time has expired. It does not! At least not all the time. Sometimes I get a WebException/Timeout but a few times it just got stuck. What is a timeout exactly? When is it called? Lets say the HttpWebResponse starts to receive data but it got stuck somewhere in the middle of transmission. Do I get a timeout? For me it looks like I don't because my application got stuck too and no timeout exception is raised. What can I do to patch this up or how can I get further information about what is going wrong here?