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Asked: 2026-05-11T19:44:22+00:00

Trying to use RSS.NET . Example on the site is: (C#) string url =

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Trying to use RSS.NET. Example on the site is: (C#)

string url = "http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_sfnews.php?feed";
RssFeed feed = RssFeed.Read(url);
RssChannel channel = (RssChannel)feed.Channels[0];
listBox.DataSource = channel.Items;

However, this fails because I need to access the feed through a proxy. How do I do this?

An overload for RssFeed.Read() takes HttpWebRequest. I think this may be the way of setting this up, but I haven’t used this before. Help! 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can indeed use the HttpWebRequest overload of the RssFeed.Read() function. The following should work

    string url = "http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_sfnews.php?feed";
string proxyUrl = "http://proxy.example.com:80/";
HttpWebRequest webReq = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
WebProxy proxy = new WebProxy(proxyUrl,true);
webReq.Proxy = proxy;
RssFeed feed = RssFeed.Read(webReq);

    If you need a username and password for the proxy there is a more detailed example here.

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