Posting file on Background Agent / HttpWebRequest stream buffer keeps growing?

The problem is that without being able to turn off write buffering, the connection to the server is not even made until BeginGetResponse() is called after closing the request stream (verified with WireShark).

One thing I noticed: you forgot to dispose f!

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