Proxy Basic Authentication in C#: HTTP 407 error

Question

I am working with a proxy that requires authentication, i.e., in a browser if I try to open a page it will immediately ask for credentials. I supplied same credentials in my

Answer 1

This problem had been bugging me for years the only workaround for me was to ask our networks team to make exceptions on our firewall so that certain URL requests didn't need to be authenticated on the proxy which is not ideal.

Recently I upgraded the project to .NET 4 from 3.5 and the code just started working using the default credentials for the proxy, no hardcoding of credentials etc.

request.Proxy.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;