System.Net.HttpWebRequest spits out garbage.

[hypershadsy]

I have a method that gives me the source of a webpage:

        public static string[] DownloadPage(string url)
        {
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            byte[] buf = new byte[8192];
            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
            //Console.WriteLine("Listening for response");
            HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
            //Console.WriteLine("Recieved. Parsing.");
            Stream resStream = response.GetResponseStream();
            string tempString = null;
            int count = 0;
            do
            {
                count = resStream.Read(buf, 0, buf.Length);
                if (count != 0)
                {
                    tempString = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buf, 0, count);
                    sb.Append(tempString);
                }
            }
            while (count > 0);
            string result=sb.ToString();
            string[] split = result.Split('\n');
            return split;
        }

But it usually spits out garbage like this:
[img]http://www.wuala.com/en/api/preview/Hypershadsy/Images/webrequest_garbage.png[/img]
And if I try to call the method again, it returns the EXACT same string[].
Weirder still, I try running the program a minute after it quits and returns the same string again. But it usually "fixes" itself if I wait three minutes afterwards. And by "fixes", I mean it spits out a different brand of garbage. Sometimes it works, though. Once every ten tries. Is this the work of a cache [del]or cookies[/del]?

Is there a way to flush out the cache (or whatever makes it return the same garbage)? Is there a different method I can use?

[Nisd]

Why make your own when you can use WebClient.DownloadString?
[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webclient.downloadstring(v=VS.80).aspx[/url]

[hypershadsy]

Still the same garbage. But that is a nifty class.

[efeX]

Ran your code multiple times for [url]http://www.google.com[/url]

[img]http://i41.tinypic.com/dbn9u.png[/img]

Not sure what's the problem?

Can you give me the url you're using?

[hypershadsy]

It IS just for the site I'm using. Doesn't matter now, I realized there was a program already out there that does the job of the program I was making.

Thanks for the WebClient class.

[turb_]

It's because of HTTP transfer encoding. In this case, it appears that the response has been gzip'd