Hi all.  I'm behind a firewall trying to connect to a remote site via 
HttpWebRequest.  My simple code is as follows:

Dim objRequest As HttpWebRequest = CType(WebRequest.Create
("http://xml.nada.com/default.asp"), HttpWebRequest)
objRequest.Method = "POST"
objRequest.ContentLength = strPost.Length
Dim myWriter As StreamWriter

Try
	myWriter = New StreamWriter(objRequest.GetRequestStream())
	myWriter.Close()
Catch objError As Exception
        MyErrorMsg
	Exit Sub
End Try

It errors on the objRequest.GetRequestStream as follows:

The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to the remote 
server.
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.CheckFinalStatus() at 
System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetRequestStream(IAsyncResult asyncResult) 
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream() at 
Requests.JointInfo.DoJoint(Object sender, CommandEventArgs e) in 
\\indlenders\DiBase\Requests\Requests\JointInfo.ascx.vb:line 295

Anyone have any idea why I'm having problems with GetRequestStream??  
Thanks!!