Question

When trying to invoke a method on an external webservice (over the Internet) it throws me ‘The remote server returned an error: (407) Proxy Authentication Required.’

To solve this, I used the following code to set the proxy we use in the office:

//Set the system proxy with valid server address or IP and port. System.Net.WebProxy pry = new System.Net.WebProxy('MyHost', 8080);  //The DefaultCredentials automically get username and password. pry.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials; System.Net.WebRequest.DefaultWebProxy = pry; 

That works fine, but now… I need to do that ‘less harcoded’ trying to get the information from my system instead of setting that manually.

Answer 1

This will use whatever the default proxy is for IE I believe (not deprecated):

Services.MyService service = new Services.MyService(); service.UseDefaultCredentials = true; service.Proxy = new System.Net.WebProxy(); service.Proxy.Credentials = service.Credentials;