Just so you are aware, that you are using a local networking IP thus probably restricting you from accessing that file you are trying to ' hit ' it remotely. What do you mean by hit? Since i am not clear on what you want, I've provided you a C# example of StreamReader to read the file from a WebRequest. Let me know if this is what you want or not. Either way, it answers your question in the examples.
C#
private void Main_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("http://10.10.113.73:8080/PaymentGateway/merchantTranVerification.jsp");
request.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
Stream iDataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(iDataStream);
string eresponse = reader.ReadToEnd();
MessageBox.Show(eresponse);
reader.Close();
iDataStream.Close();
response.Close();
}
.Net
Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim inStream As StreamReader
Dim webRequest As WebRequest
Dim webresponse As WebResponse
webRequest = webRequest.Create("http://10.10.113.73:8080/PaymentGateway/merchantTranVerification.jsp")
webresponse = webRequest.GetResponse()
inStream = New StreamReader(webresponse.GetResponseStream())
Dim AvailCode As String = inStream.ReadToEnd()
MsgBox("AvailCode: " + AvailCode)
End Sub