WebHelper for Desktop CLR

I recently posted a nice little helper class that I had been using on windows phone 7. This version works on the desktop CLR (there's a minor difference in how you create a web request) ... and also adds a new method that lets you get direct access to the response stream. So I figured I'd post it as it is a generally useful class.

public static class WebHelper
{
    public static WaitHandle Get(string url, Action<WebResponse> action)
    {
        return Get(new Uri(url), action);
    }

    public static WaitHandle Get(Uri uri, Action<WebResponse> action)
    {
        var request = WebRequest.CreateDefault(uri);
        ManualResetEvent handle = new ManualResetEvent(false);
        request.BeginGetResponse(i =>
        {
            var response = request.EndGetResponse(i);
            action(response);
            handle.Set();
        }, null);

        return handle;
    }

    public static WaitHandle Get(string url, Action<string> action)
    {
        return Get(new Uri(url), action);
    }

    public static WaitHandle Get(Uri uri, Action<string> action)
    {
        return Get(uri, response =>
        {
            var sreader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
            var result = sreader.ReadToEnd();
            action(result);
        });
    }
}

For some example usage, you can easily proxy a download through an ASP.NET MVC web app:

        public ActionResult Get(string q)
        {
            Stream res = new MemoryStream();
            string contentType = "text/html";

            bool timedOut = !WebHelper
                .Get(q, html => 
                    {
                        res = html.GetResponseStream();
                        contentType = html.ContentType;
                    })
                .WaitOne(30000); // wait 30 seconds to get a response

            if (timedOut)
            {
                StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(res);
                writer.WriteLine("The request timed out, sorry!");
                res.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
            }

            return File(res, contentType);
        }