C# HttpWebRequest timing out from USA IPs, fine in browsers

I am struggling with web requests to some websites like (mrporter.com or size.co.uk). Outside USA (so no USA IPs), I can make requests just fine. However once I am behind USA IP, requests either time out or end up with "A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond" exception. I have tried all kind of headers combinations, still no luck. I need to note, that those websites are opening in browsers just fine.

This is my implementation that works with non-USA ips.

var _request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://www.mrporter.com");
_request.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer();
_request.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36";
_request.KeepAlive = true;
_request.AutomaticDecompression = (DecompressionMethods.GZip | DecompressionMethods.Deflate);
_request.Headers.Add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate");
_request.Headers.Add("Accept-Language", "en-GB, en-US; q=0.9, en; q=0.8");
_request.Headers.Add("Upgrade-Insecure-Requests", "1");
var _srr = "";
using (var response = _request.GetResponse())
{
var httpWebResponse = response.GetResponseStream();
using (var sr = new StreamReader(httpWebResponse))
{
_srr = sr.ReadToEnd();
}
}

Anybody can help? I seriously wasted hours with it with no result ...

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Chirag Khabaria8y ago
Seems to be like your must be behind a firewall or proxy. I think you should reach out to your network team if they are blocking requests?

If you are using proxy you can try making request by changing the proxy setting in the config file.
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