EasyHttp - C#

// EasyHttp.cs
//
// Author: Odysseus (Punkbastard)
// Date: July 6th, 2015
// Last edit: July 6th, 2015

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;

namespace EasyHttp_C
{
    public class EasyHttp
    {
        private string _useragent;

        private CookieContainer cookieContainer;

        public string UserAgent
        {
            get { return _useragent; }
            set { _useragent = value; }
        }

        public string HttpGet(string uri)
        {
            try
            {
                HttpWebRequest getRequest = (HttpWebRequest) HttpWebRequest.Create(uri);
                getRequest.Method = "GET";
                getRequest.UserAgent = this._useragent;
                getRequest.CookieContainer = this.cookieContainer;

                string source = String.Empty;
                using (StreamReader gReader = new StreamReader(getRequest.GetResponse().GetResponseStream()))
                {
                    source = gReader.ReadToEnd();
                }

                return source;
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                return ex.Message;
            }
        }

        public string HttpPost(string uri, string data)
        {
            try
            {
                HttpWebRequest postRequest = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(uri);
                postRequest.Method = "POST";
                postRequest.UserAgent = this._useragent;
                postRequest.CookieContainer = this.cookieContainer;
                postRequest.ContentLength = data.Length;
                postRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

                UTF8Encoding postEncoding = new UTF8Encoding();
                byte[] dataBytes = postEncoding.GetBytes(data);
                postRequest.ContentLength = dataBytes.Length;

                using (Stream pStream = postRequest.GetResponse().GetResponseStream())
                {
                    pStream.Write(dataBytes, 0, dataBytes.Length);
                }

                string source = String.Empty;
                using (StreamReader pReader = new StreamReader(postRequest.GetResponse().GetResponseStream()))
                {
                    source = pReader.ReadToEnd();
                }

                return source;
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                return ex.Message;
            }
        }

    }
}