PowerShell, Web Requests, and Proxies

Question

When making a simple web request is there a way to tell the PowerShell environment to just use your Internet Explorer\'s proxy settings?

My proxy settings are contro

Answer 1

I know this is really really old, but there's a right way and so few people seem to know it. The below will figure out what the proxy is for the URI that you're interested in and use it.

$uri = "http://www.google.com"
invoke-webrequest -ProxyUseDefaultCredentials -proxy (new-object System.Net.WebClient).Proxy.GetProxy($uri).AbsoluteUri $uri