bryanbarnard · December 23, 2013 19:15 · Dec 23, 2013
diff --git a/SimpleHttpClient.cs b/SimpleHttpClient.cs
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+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using System.Net.Http;
+using System.Net;
+
+
+namespace HTTP_Test
+{
+    class program
+    {
+        static void Main()
+        {
+            Task t = new Task(HTTP_GET);
+            t.Start();
+            Console.ReadLine();
+        }
+
+        static async void HTTP_GET()
+        {
+            var TARGETURL = "http://en.wikipedia.org/";
+
+            HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler()
+            {
+                Proxy = new WebProxy("http://127.0.0.1:8888"),
+                UseProxy = true,
+            };
+
+            Console.WriteLine("GET: + " + TARGETURL);
+
+            // ... Use HttpClient.            
+            HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler);
+
+            var byteArray = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("username:password1234");
+            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new System.Net.Http.Headers.AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(byteArray));
+
+            HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync(TARGETURL);
+            HttpContent content = response.Content;
+
+            // ... Check Status Code                                
+            Console.WriteLine("Response StatusCode: " + (int)response.StatusCode);
+
+            // ... Read the string.
+            string result = await content.ReadAsStringAsync();
+
+            // ... Display the result.
+            if (result != null &&
+            result.Length >= 50)
+            {
+                Console.WriteLine(result.Substring(0, 50) + "...");
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}