Don't Think too hard!!!
Sadly, I did not follow my own advice, thus spurring this post.
Simple Code to Download a file from an HTTPS Source.
Just make sure you trust the certificate being served up.
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
webClient.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password", "domain");
webClient.DownloadFile("https://servername/path/documentToDownload.txt", "localPathToSaveFile");
If you want a Stream to read the data from:
HttpWebRequest httpRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(@"https://httpsServer/fileToDownload.txt");
httpRequest.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password", "domain");
HttpWebResponse httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpRequest.GetResponse();
Stream responseStream = httpResponse.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(responseStream);
// Do stuff with the Stream
responseStream.Close();