ServerXMLHTTP in ASP.NET

[NKSBenny]

I am currently using the Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP object to execute remote HTTP requests and retrieve the response without leaving the current process - for example, in the Page_Load event, I may create this object (using Server.CreateObject), run a GET request to a different page through the ServerXMLHTTP, get the HTML returned from that page, and display it on the current page.

This is very slow though - does anybody know if there's an equivalent set of functions provided through a .NET namespace?

Thanks in advance.