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title: "[Article/Code]: Easy Proxy handling through the ProxyFactory and ProxyInfo classes"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/11/4/articlecode-easy-proxy-handling-through-the-proxyfactory-and.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/11/4/articlecode-easy-proxy-handling-through-the-proxyfactory-and.html"
published: "2003-11-04T20:57:00"
updated: "2003-11-04T20:57:00"
tags: [".Net Original", "Cool Articles"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I had to make The Regulator support Proxy servers, so I dug in to how the WebProxy class works, and with a little help from Darren , I managed to get it up and running. In the process, I wrote a little helper class that…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# \[Article/Code\]: Easy Proxy handling through the ProxyFactory and ProxyInfo classes

By Roy Osherove November 4, 2003 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original), [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles)

**Historical article** · Originally published November 4, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

I had to make [The Regulator](http://royo.is-a-geek.com/regulator) support Proxy servers, so I dug in to how the WebProxy class works, and with a little help from [Darren](http://weblogs.asp.net/dneimke/), I managed to get it up and running. In the process, I wrote a little helper class that eases the configuration syntax against this API. Here it is:

[Easy Proxy handling through the ProxyFactory and ProxyInfo classes](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/posts/34670.aspx)

It can handle all the situations, starting from getting the default proxy settings up to providing the user/password login information setup. Hope it helps.

## More in .Net Original

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- Oct 27, 2003

    ### [Refactoring, FINALLY!](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/27/refactoring-finally.html)


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