C#: Web Request Class for REST

gistfile1.cs

public class HTTP
{
    public enum Method
    {
        GET = 3,
        POST = 0,
        PUT = 1,
        DELETE = 2
    }

    public class Request
    {
        private WebRequest _request;
        private Stream _stream;
        private String _status;

        public String Status
        {
            get { return _status; }
            set { _status = value; }
        }

        public Request(string url)
        {
            // Create a request using a URL
            _request = WebRequest.Create(url);
        }

        public Request(string url, HTTP.Method HTTPMethod) :this(url)
        {
            // Set the method
            switch (HTTPMethod)
            {
                case Method.GET:
                    _request.Method = "GET";
                    break;
                case Method.POST:
                    _request.Method = "POST";
                    break;
                case Method.PUT:
                    _request.Method = "PUT";
                    break;
                case Method.DELETE:
                    _request.Method = "DELETE";
                    break;
                default:
                    _request.Method = "GET";
                    break;
            }
        }

        public APIResponse GetResponse()
        {
            // Get original resposne
            WebResponse response = _request.GetResponse();

            this.Status = ((HttpWebResponse)response).StatusDescription;

            // Get the stream containing all content returned by request
            _stream = response.GetResponseStream();

            // Open the stream using a StreamReader
            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(_stream);

            // Read entire content
            String fullResponse = reader.ReadToEnd();

            // Clean up
            reader.Close();
            _stream.Close();
            response.Close();

            

            return JSON.Deserialize<APIResponse>(fullResponse);
        }

    }

}

// Can be called like this
HTTP.Request req = new HTTP.Request(url, HTTP.Method.GET);
n.Framework.v1.WebServices.APIResponse k = req.GetResponse();