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Simple C# .NET 4.5 HTTPClient Request Using Basic Auth and Proxy
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net;
namespace HTTP_Test
{
class program
{
static void Main()
{
Task t = new Task(HTTP_GET);
t.Start();
Console.ReadLine();
}
static async void HTTP_GET()
{
var TARGETURL = "http://en.wikipedia.org/";
HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler()
{
Proxy = new WebProxy("http://127.0.0.1:8888"),
UseProxy = true,
};
Console.WriteLine("GET: + " + TARGETURL);
// ... Use HttpClient.
HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler);
var byteArray = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("username:password1234");
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new System.Net.Http.Headers.AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(byteArray));
HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync(TARGETURL);
HttpContent content = response.Content;
// ... Check Status Code
Console.WriteLine("Response StatusCode: " + (int)response.StatusCode);
// ... Read the string.
string result = await content.ReadAsStringAsync();
// ... Display the result.
if (result != null &&
result.Length >= 50)
{
Console.WriteLine(result.Substring(0, 50) + "...");
}
}
}
}
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