Invoke-WebRequest GetSystemWebProxy()

Question

Under PowerShell 2.0 I know that you can set the proxy you would like to use without knowing the exact proxy settings by doing something like the following:

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Answer 1

The actual problem with your code above (even though Shay's is more elegant) is that you're trying to set a property on a variable before it exists. The SessionVariable "$WS" doesn't exist before you call Invoke-WebRequest but you're trying to set the .Proxy property above it.

If it worked at one point, you had probably created an instance of $WS previously and therefore were able to work with the object during testing but on a fresh/dry run when the script was processing top-down, it didn't yet exist.