I am making a multi-threaded application. Each thread has its own WebBrowser control. I want to know how to set a different proxy for each WebBrowser. A custom WebBrowser that supports a proxy per instance will be a good solution to me as well.
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2You have multiple UI threads? How did you do that? – John Saunders Dec 26 '10 at 18:07
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They ain't UI threads. They are a sort of background workers. I initialize 1 WebBrowser object (new WebBrowser();) on each thread and do specific tasks. – dlock Dec 26 '10 at 18:15
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1WebBrowser objects are visual components. If you're just sending requests and receiving responses, you'd do better with WebRequest object. – AviD Jan 09 '11 at 17:11
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can you create the webbrowser controls in different processes? WinInet settings are process-wide, so do WinInet sessions. – Sheng Jiang 蒋晟 Jan 11 '11 at 21:46
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This idea is so crazy it *just might work*. :-) – MusiGenesis Jan 12 '11 at 00:42
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@deadlock: Did you got this running?? If yes, then could you please provide information about how you did it. I am trying to do the same thing, but in C++. – Arpit Sep 23 '15 at 14:17
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Maybe another approach would be in order.
You could spawn a WebRequest in the background threads and set a different proxy for each one. After you receive the data, then you can easily load it in a WebBrowser to play with it.
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Since the WebBrowser is just an instance of the IE, it is impossible to set the Proxy for it. (Unless you tweak the registry, but it it's not individually)
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As maor said, you won't be able to do a proxy per browser setup with WebBrowser. Instead, if you have control over the proxy, you might want to see what options it has for identifying a session (request/response). You might be able to, from the one proxy, tell which requests are probably coming from which WebBrowser controls depending on URLs and headers, etc.
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