Question

Is it possible to detect/reuse those settings ?

How ?

The exception i’m getting is
This is the exception while connecting to http://www.google.com

System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect to the remote server --->
  System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: A connection attempt failed because the
  connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established
  connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 66.102.1.99:80

  at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoConnect(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, 
     SocketAddress socketAddress)
  at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.InternalConnect(EndPoint remoteEP)
  at System.Net.ServicePoint.ConnectSocketInternal(Boolean connectFailure,
     Socket s4, Socket s6, Socket& socket, IPAddress& address,
     ConnectSocketState state, IAsyncResult asyncResult, Int32 timeout,
     Exception& exception)
  --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
  at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
  at mvcTest.MvcApplication.Application_Start() in
     C:\\home\\test\\Application1\\Application1\\Program.cs:line 33"

Answer 1

HttpWebRequest will actually use the IE proxy settings by default.

If you don’t want to use them, you have to specifically override the .Proxy proprty to either null (no proxy), or the proxy settings of you choice.

 HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://news.bbc.co.uk");
 //request.Proxy = null; // uncomment this to bypass the default (IE) proxy settings
 HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

 Console.WriteLine("Done - press return");
 Console.ReadLine();