Strange Error 400 while using HttpRequest to consume REST API - c#

I am trying to consume a REST API and i have an issue that it is driving me crazy...
I created a dll to wrap the service consumption layer, and i found that if i consume the services using the c# interactive feature it works fine.
The issue is when i try to consume it from another DLL, it is throwing Bad Request exception when executing GetResponse()
The code executed is...
var url = $"{_salesForceInstance}/services/data/{_salesForceVersion}/query/?q=SELECT+Id,Name,AccountId+from+Contact+WHERE+Email+=+'{email}'";
var webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
webRequest.ServicePoint.CloseConnectionGroup(webRequest.ConnectionGroupName);
webRequest.Method = "GET";
webRequest.ContentType = "application/json";
webRequest.Headers.Add("Authorization", $"Bearer {_authorizationToken}");
var webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;
I also when debugging code, to send the same through POSTMAN and it works fine...
Any ideas??? I am quite frustrated at this point why it works when consuming the dll from C# interactive but not from another dll...

As spender suggested i tried with Fiddler...
I found that despite of the fact both request looks the same, (the one from c# interactive and the one from the console app), in the one that returned the HTTP 400 error code the response included the following message
"[{"message":"TLS 1.0 has been disabled in this organization. Please use TLS 1.1 or higher when connecting to Salesforce using https.","errorCode":"UNSUPPORTED_CLIENT"}]"
That message does not appear when debugging...
Finally i solved by including the line described below in my code in order to use TLS 1.2
ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;
Now it works !!!
Hope this helps to someone else!
Thanks!

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