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System.Net.WebProxy

The WebProxy class provides an implementation of the IWebProxy interface. It is used to specify proxy settings for web requests.

Syntax

public class WebProxy : IWebProxy

Properties

Methods

Example

Name	Type	Description
Address	`Uri`	Gets or sets the URI of the proxy server.
Credentials	`ICredentials`	Gets or sets the credentials to submit to the proxy server for authentication.
BypassProxyOnLocal	`bool`	Gets or sets a value indicating whether to bypass the proxy for local addresses.
BypassList	`string[]`	Gets or sets an array of regular expressions that match URLs that bypass the proxy.

Name	Signature	Description
GetProxy	`Uri GetProxy(Uri destination)`	Returns the proxy URI for the given destination URI.
IsBypassed	`bool IsBypassed(Uri host)`	Determines whether the proxy server is bypassed for the specified host.

Basic usage

using System;
using System.Net;

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        var proxy = new WebProxy()
        {
            Address = new Uri("http://proxy.example.com:8080"),
            BypassProxyOnLocal = true,
            BypassList = new[] { ".*\\.local$", "127\\.0\\.0\\.1" },
            Credentials = new NetworkCredential("user", "password")
        };

        var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://www.example.com");
        request.Proxy = proxy;

        using var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
        Console.WriteLine(new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd());
    }
}