How to create a simple proxy in C#?

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I wouldn’t use HttpListener or something like that, in that way you’ll come across so many issues.

Most importantly it’ll be a huge pain to support:

  • Proxy Keep-Alives
  • SSL won’t work (in a correct way, you’ll get popups)
  • .NET libraries strictly follows RFCs which causes some requests to fail (even though IE, FF and any other browser in the world will work.)

What you need to do is:

  • Listen a TCP port
  • Parse the browser request
  • Extract Host connect to that host in TCP level
  • Forward everything back and forth unless you want to add custom headers etc.

I wrote 2 different HTTP proxies in .NET with different requirements and I can tell you that this is the best way to do it.

Mentalis doing this, but their code is “delegate spaghetti”, worse than GoTo 🙂

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