string url = @"http://abhinavevent2014.sched.org/api/auth/login?api_key=1309658400d57c8cfc6081f8361de52c&username=abhinavm@test.com&password=test";


            Encoding encode = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("utf-8");
            WebRequest requestfriend = WebRequest.Create(url);
            WebResponse responsefriend = requestfriend.GetResponse(); (  This is where it blows)
            Stream streamResponse = responsefriend.GetResponseStream();
            StreamReader streamReaderResponse = new StreamReader(streamResponse, encode);
            jsonResult = streamReaderResponse.ReadToEnd();

            return jsonResult.ToString();