How do I set up the proxy for a web request?

[Henk1]

Good day,

I am using the following code to get the HTML from a web page. But I get a proxy authentication error.

How would I set up the proxy details (server, port, username and password) for our proxy server to get past it?

// Setup our Web request
System.Net.WebRequest request = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(pageUrl);
				
request.Timeout = timeoutSeconds * 1000;
								
// Retrieve data from request
response = request.GetResponse();

System.IO.Stream streamReceive = response.GetResponseStream();
System.Text.Encoding encoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("utf-8");
System.IO.StreamReader streamRead = new System.IO.StreamReader( streamReceive, encoding);
				
// return the retrieved HTML
return streamRead.ReadToEnd();

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

 

[MaryDia]

You can try this:

WebRequest myWebRequest= WebRequest.Create("

http://...");

//set the proxy to a correct value.
WebProxy proxy=new WebProxy("myproxy:80");
proxy.Credentials=new NetworkCredential ("username","psw");
myWebRequest.Proxy=proxy;


Hope this help,
Mary

 

[Henk1]

Thanks alot for the answer.

I now get another error message saying that the connection was closed. But I think our firewall is blocking my request. I'll try tonight at home.

Thanks again.

 

[lsugirl]

I'm getting the connection closed error also. Did you figure out the problem?

thanks in advance.