Get IE's default proxy with DefaultWebProxy

Question

I\'ve read through pretty much all the documentation I can find but I\'m yet to find a simple working example of how to get IE\'s default proxy settings using DefaultW

Answer 1

WebRequest.DefaultWebProxy implements the IWebProxy interface. You can use the GetProxy method to get the proxy's URI:

var uri = WebRequest.DefaultWebProxy.GetProxy(new Uri("http://www.google.com"));

Response to a comment:

You need to pass the uri to GetProxy because that's how Microsoft implemented it...

Seriously, I believe this is so because you can configure the browser to bypass the proxy for some addresses. If you pass one of this bypassed addresses, you will probably get a different result.