HTTPWebRequest

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.