PowerShell, Web Requests, and Proxies

Question

When making a simple web request is there a way to tell the PowerShell environment to just use your Internet Explorer\'s proxy settings?

My proxy settings are contro

Answer 1

$proxy = New-Object System.Net.WebProxy("http://yourProxy:8080")
$proxy.useDefaultCredentials = $true
$wc = new-object system.net.webclient
$wc.proxy = $proxy
$wc.downloadString($url)