Call rest web service from SQL Server 2008 using stored procedure - web-services

Question

I have an xml created from a SQL query through a stored procedure. I need to call a REST web service with that xml and get a response. I am using SQL Server 2008. Is there a way to do it from the stored procedure?
I keep seeing links to use SQL CLR to access the web service. In those links, I need to create a SQL Server project / .NET framework. I do not see those templates / options in my Visual Studio 2008 or SQL Server Management Studio.
Is there a way to call this https rest web service directly from the stored procedure?
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I am using the SQL CLR to do this. But somehow the xml is not getting passed right. I get a 500 error. Could you please see if there is anything wrong with this code.
public static void SampleWSPost(SqlString weburl, out SqlString returnval)
{
string url = Convert.ToString(weburl);
string feedData = string.Empty;
ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding();
try
{
HttpWebRequest request = null;
HttpWebResponse response = null;
Stream stream = null;
StreamReader streamReader = null;
XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader("D:\\CXmls\\crmXml.xml");
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(reader);
reader.Close();
request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
CredentialCache mycache = new CredentialCache();
mycache.Add(new Uri(url), "Basic", new NetworkCredential("username", "password"));
request.Credentials = mycache;
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "text/xml";
string data = xmlDoc.InnerXml;
byte[] bytedata = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data);
Stream newStream = request.GetRequestStream();
newStream.Write(bytedata, 0, bytedata.Length);
newStream.Close();
response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
stream = response.GetResponseStream();
streamReader = new StreamReader(stream);
feedData = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
response.Close();
stream.Dispose();
streamReader.Dispose();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
SqlContext.Pipe.Send(ex.Message.ToString());
}
returnval = feedData;
}