Network Programming in .NET

If you’ve ever used the Hola plugin to mask your IP, or pretend you are in a different country in order to watch video streaming for another country, then you may be surprised to know it uses your PC as a proxy server, for companies to route web requests via your machine in order to do – who knows what. Access to this network starts at $500 a month, so they earn well from using your computer, and internet connection.

I’m certain this is all in the small print, and all legal, but is it moral?

But, this is a development blog, so let’s see how to code this; I’m using C#, and the username and passwords have been removed for privacy reasons.

var client = new WebClient
{
Proxy = new WebProxy(“zproxy.luminati.io:22225”)
{
Credentials = new NetworkCredential(“xxx”, “yyy”)
}
};
var strIp = client.DownloadString(“http://icanhazip.com/”);
Response.Write(strIp);

In order to get a username / password, you need to sign in to Luminati

Just to mention one of my own websites ; I maintain a list of proxies here – http://proxy.apixml.net/