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

Just update the URL with your own proxy address:port. It enables PowerShellGet to go past the proxy using your local credentials. If you don't have credential requirement, just click OK when prompted for your password. I renamed that box to "Close this window". You can also use other package managers like Chocolatey/Nuget through the proxy because of this script.