web access to test at work

workingNow.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;

namespace RestTestApp
{
    internal class Program
    {
        private static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Create a new request to the mentioned URL.				
            HttpWebRequest myWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create("http://developer.yahoo.com/");

            // Obtain the 'Proxy' of the  Default browser.  
            IWebProxy proxy = myWebRequest.Proxy;
            // Print the Proxy Url to the console.
            if (proxy != null)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Proxy: {0}", proxy.GetProxy(myWebRequest.RequestUri));
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Proxy is null; no proxy will be used");
            }

            WebProxy myProxy = new WebProxy();

            Console.WriteLine("\nPlease enter the new Proxy Address that is to be set:");
            Console.WriteLine("(Example:http://myproxy.example.com:port)");
            string proxyAddress;

            proxyAddress = Console.ReadLine();
            if (proxyAddress.Length > 0)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("\nPlease enter the Credentials (may not be needed)");
                Console.WriteLine("Username:");
                string username;
                username = Console.ReadLine();
                Console.WriteLine("\nPassword:");
                string password;
                password = Console.ReadLine();
                // Create a new Uri object.
                Uri newUri = new Uri(proxyAddress);
                // Associate the newUri object to 'myProxy' object so that new myProxy settings can be set.
                myProxy.Address = newUri;
                // Create a NetworkCredential object and associate it with the 
                // Proxy property of request object.
                myProxy.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password);
                myWebRequest.Proxy = myProxy;
            }
            Console.WriteLine("\nThe Address of the  new Proxy settings are {0}", myProxy.Address);

            using (HttpWebResponse response = myWebRequest.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
            {
                //get response stream
                if (response != null)
                {
                    StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());

                    //console app output
                    Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd());
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

got it working, will be useful example.