Auto Detect Proxy Server for calling a WS from Win Form.

Hi Steve,

You are right - at least for now, you have to know the name of a proxy
server to interface with in order to do so.

Regards

Dan Rogers
Microsoft Corporation
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Appologies if this has already been asked, but after scanning the web and
this news group I could find no decent solution.

We have a windows App that calls a webservice, using this bit of basic code.

Dim objPreReq As PDCPreReq.PreReqs

Dim objProxy As System.Net.WebProxy = System.Net.WebProxy.GetDefaultProxy

objProxy.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials

objPreReq = New PDCPreReq.PreReqs

objPreReq.Url = "http://xxxx.com/xxx.aspx" 'Ommitted.

objPreReq.Proxy = objProxy

Return objPreReq.SaveDetails(m_ds)

This all works fine with Proxy servers, until we have Auto Detect Proxy
Server setup in IE.

Now the "System.Net.WebProxy.GetDefaultProxy" returns the entered proxy
settings through IE, which is great, however according to the documentation
and testing for ourselves it does not return the auto detected proxy
settings, and I really need to get hold of this setting for the web service
call to succeed.. Looking around the net it would seem that everyone
recommends us putting an entry in the machine or app.config for the proxy
server, however this is not really a reasonable request as the program
could
be rolled out to handreds of machines and if the proxy setting is changed
this would require a change to lots of machines, when it would be much
easier to read the settings in from IE.

So my question is does anyone have a reasonable solution to this problem,
are the details stored somewhere in the registry that I could get at them?

Any help would be great, I really don't want users to have to setup their
app.config file each time the sys admin changes a proxy server, after all
you don't have to go into IE and change it each time.

Steve.