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Use system proxy configuration on macOS

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#24,799 opened on Jan 25, 2018

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Description

MacOS has system proxy configuration similar to Windows. To have better integration with OS it may be handy to use this instead of relying on environment variables.

One different caveat is that the proxy is specific to interfaces we we would need to find active interface first

#networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder
#networksetup -getwebproxy Wi-FI
Enabled: No
Server:
Port: 0
Authenticated Proxy Enabled: 0

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Investigate how to read system proxy settings on macOS using .NET APIs and integrate with the runtime's HTTP client.
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csharp
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backend
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macOSC#
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