How do I read a network stream ?

I copied an example of how to use a socket and a stream to send a request to a server below.  It was from Nicky and there is a reference to the link at the end of this post.  How can I read the stream returned from the server in this example ?  What type of conversion can I expect to have to make so the response is human readable ?

public static void InStateToServer(int port)
{
   IPHostEntry host = Dns.GetHostEntry("192.168.2.231");
   IPEndPoint endPoint = new IPEndPoint(host.AddressList[0], 80);

   using (Socket socket = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp))
   {
      socket.Connect(endPoint);

      using (NetworkStream ns = new NetworkStream(socket))
      {
         byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("GET /decoder_control.cgi?command=" + port + "&user=admin&pwd=abc HTTP/1.1\r\n");
         ns.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
      }
   }
}

Code From Nicky

http://forums.netdui...es-a-long-time/

HI,

If your doing an HTTP request it is most probably easier\simpler to use the functionality in System.http.

See bottom of this post for sample code.

http://forums.netdui...https-rest-url/

@KiwiBryn

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