Question

I am working on a legacy code where an application uses AxSHDocVw.AxWebBrowser (not System.Windows.Forms.Control) to open up web pages and am extending it to take proxy into considerations.

I have following example on http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/wininet/internetsetoption.html to use InternetSetOption() to go through specified proxy and tested that it works.

Now the hurdle is I tried everything but failed to pass username and password with following code:

//-- Set Proxy Username
bool resultF = InternetSetOption(IntPtr.Zero, INTERNET_OPTION_PROXY_USERNAME, username, username.Length+1);
var errorF = Marshal.GetLastWin32Error();

//-- Set Proxy Password
bool resultG = InternetSetOption(IntPtr.Zero, INTERNET_OPTION_PROXY_PASSWORD, password, password.Length+1);
var errorG = Marshal.GetLastWin32Error();

Both resultF and resultG return true and has no errors but it still working. Any hint on what may be happening here? and what method do I have to debug this?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I actually found a work’able solution, where it was lie under navigation with Proxy-Authentication in header:

var credentialStringValue = "user:pass";
var credentialByteArray = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(credentialStringValue);
var credentialBase64String = Convert.ToBase64String(credentialByteArray);

Object nullObject = 0;
Object nullObjectString = "";
Object authObject = string.Format("Proxy-Authorization: Basic {0}{1}", credentialBase64String, Environment.NewLine);

browser.Navigate(args.Url, ref nullObject, ref nullObject, ref nullObjectString, ref authObject);

where browser is:

public AxWebBrowser browser;