500 Internal Server Error at HttpWebResponse - c#

I have a few web services up and running fine on my localhost. The problem is when I try requesting a response from it, the following error comes up when debugging:
Web Exception was unhandled by user code
The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error
The piece of my code where it throws this error is at the HttpWebResponse header:
using (HttpWebResponse httpResponse = httpRequest.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
{
Encoding enc = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252);
using (StreamReader responseStream = new StreamReader(httpResponse.GetResponseStream(), enc))
{
bl = responseStream.ReadToEnd();
}
}
Any tips? I'm sort of new to this...much appreciated.

The 500 error means something went wrong in the server side.
If you also wrote the web services, that's the code you have to inspect and debug.

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/troubleshoot/using-failed-request-tracing/troubleshooting-failed-requests-using-tracing-in-iis
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