Which one am I supposed to use when I need to supply a credential to a proxy (local or in Network)?
What’s the exact difference between these two?
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Which one am I supposed to use when I need to supply a credential to a proxy (local or in Network)?
What’s the exact difference between these two?
They are exactly the same thing, which you can confirm for yourself using a disassembler like Reflector. The only difference is that
DefaultNetworkCredentialsreturns aNetworkCredentialsobject and andDefaultCredentialscasts it toICredentials. So you have access to more information with a NetworkCredentials object, but which of those you use supply to an object requiring an ICredentials instance makes no difference, since it’s the same object instance:object.ReferenceEquals(CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials, CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials)returnstrue.