How to cast between WebRequest and HttpWebRequest

I was trying to open a website that returns a session cookie from X++ and I wanted to use CLR interop to achieve this.
So I needed to know how to use instance of HttpWebResponse class when X++ does not support casting from WebResponse class.

Solution is to use CLRObject to cast between WebRequest and HttpWebRequest.

static void Job_1(Args _args)
{ 
    System.Net.HttpWebRequest   httpRequest  = null;
    System.Net.HttpWebResponse  httpResponse = null; 
    System.Net.CookieCollection cookies      = null; 
    CLRObject                   clro         = null; 
    ; 
    new InteropPermission(InteropKind::ClrInterop).assert();
    clro         = System.Net.WebRequest::Create(“http://www.url.com/authenticate”);
    httpRequest  = clro; 
    httpResponse = httpRequest.GetResponse();
    cookies      = httpResponse.get_Cookies(); 
    clro         = System.Net.WebRequest::Create(“http://www.url.com/”);
    httpRequest  = clro; 
    httpResponse.set_Cookies(cookies);
    httpResponse = httpRequest.GetResponse();
} 

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