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HTTPWebRequest WebProxy Proxies in C#

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Introduction: This tutorial is on how to create a HTTPWebRequest in C# using a proxy connection. Why Proxies? Proxies are sometimes required in certain web scraping applications due to the sheer amount of data that needs to scraped. Some sites temporarily - or even permanently - block IP addresses which are requesting/receiving large amounts of data in a short time to avoid the website's full bandwidth being used on that single IP, and therefore stopping the site from going offline for all other users as well.

Uploading POST Data to PHP in C#

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Introduction: This tutorial is on how to create POST data uploader in C#. POST or GET? If you don't know what the difference is between POST and GET, these are the methods used by PHP to gain information from external sources that parse the data to those PHP pages. GET is URL based such as; index.php?id=2 Id is 2. And POST is behind the scenes for sensitive information such as passwords. Project: So first we want to create a basic C# project through the File > New Project wizard.