WebProxy error: Proxy Authentication Required

Question

I use the following code to obtaing html data from the internet:

WebProxy p = new WebProxy("localproxyIP:8080", true);
p.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("domain\\user", "password");
WebRequest.DefaultWebProxy = p;
WebClient client = new WebClient();
string downloadString = client.DownloadString("http://www.google.com");

But the following error is appeared: "Proxy Authentication Required". I can't use default proxy because of my code runs from windows service under the special account which there is no default proxy settings for. So, I want to specidy all proxy settings in my code. Please advice me how to resolve this error.

Tunstall

try to remove the domain\\ part (also remember of wrapping WebClient with using() statement because it implements IDisposable) – Shrader

Answer 1

You've to set the WebClient.Proxy Property..

WebProxy p = new WebProxy("localproxyIP:8080", true);
p.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("domain\\user", "password");
WebRequest.DefaultWebProxy = p;
WebClient client = new WebClient();
**client.Proxy = p;**
string downloadString = client.DownloadString("http://www.google.com");

Milieu

it's not needed because WebRequest.DefaultWebProxy = p is enough – Shrader

you're right if you use WebRequest.Create() and after you call WebRequest.GetResponse(). But in this case he's using the WebClient to make request so the Proxy is not the same. – Milieu

Actually DownloadString method internally uses WebRequest object created by WebRequest.Create(). If proxy wasn't particularly set to WebClient object, such WebRequest object uses proxy obtained from WebRequest.InternalDefaultWebProxy property, which is just set by WebRequest.DefaultWebProxy = p statement; – Shrader

Imho solution below https://mcmap.net/q/789872/-webproxy-error-proxy-authentication-required is better. – Batts

Answer 2

This worked for me:

IWebProxy defaultWebProxy = WebRequest.DefaultWebProxy;
defaultWebProxy.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
client = new WebClient
    {
        Proxy = defaultWebProxy
    };
string downloadString = client.DownloadString(...);

Grati

Wonderful! This should be part of every WebClient sample. – Fachini

Can confirm this answer is perfect - We distributed software to clients that kept hitting this issue due to network restrictions. This patched the single issue everyone was facing. This should be the selected answer. YOU SAVED ME – Melodious

I use Console dotnet Core, how can i config it in setting file (such as app.config in Net Framework) – Territorial

Answer 3

Try this code

var transferProxy = new WebProxy("localproxyIP:8080", true);
transferProxy.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("user", "password", "domain");
var transferRequest = WebRequest.Create("http://www.google.com");
transferRequest.Proxy = transferProxy;
HttpWebResponse transferResponse = 
    (HttpWebResponse)transferRequest.GetResponse(); 
System.IO.Stream outputStream = transferResponse.GetResponseStream();

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