Hello,

I have question related to HttpWebRequest class, part of System.Net
namespace. Apparently in .NET 2.0 version, the one and only available from
outside constructor is now declared as obsolete (this is a dump from
Reflector):

[Obsolete("Serialization is obsoleted for this type.
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=14202"),
SecurityPermission(SecurityAction.Demand, SerializationFormatter=true)]
protected HttpWebRequest(SerializationInfo serializationInfo,
StreamingContext streamingContext) : base(serializationInfo,
streamingContext)

I would like to ask the designers of the library why they are obsoleting
this constructor? So far I have found one very good use for it, to implement
my own compressed (gzip) HTTP web request extension. Permanently removing
this constructor will make this simple extension harder to accomplish.

My original reason for using this bizarre constructor was the inability to
use HttpWebRequest constructor with Uri parameter, which is defined as
internal for the assembly. This would have been much better fit for my
problem at hand.

Thank you for your time,
Ivan