# Accessing Tor .onion URLs via HttpClient with .NET6

In .NET6, there is built-in [support for SOCKS4/5 proxies](https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/48883)! This means you can install the [Tor](https://dist.torproject.org/torbrowser/) service and without anything else, access any `.onion` URL with plain `HttpClient`:

```csharp
using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;

var http = new HttpClient(new HttpClientHandler
{
    Proxy = new WebProxy("socks5://127.0.0.1:1338")
});

Console.WriteLine(await http.GetStringAsync("https://bbcnewsv2vjtpsuy.onion"));
```

NOTE: I could not get this to work with gRPC, which requires HTTP/2.

You can get the daily .NET6 SDK installer permalinks from:

| Platform            |                            Main                            |
| ------------------- | :--------------------------------------------------------: |
| **Windows (x64)**   |  <https://aka.ms/dotnet/6.0/daily/dotnet-sdk-win-x64.exe>  |
| **Windows (x86)**   |  <https://aka.ms/dotnet/6.0/daily/dotnet-sdk-win-x86.exe>  |
| **Windows (arm64)** | <https://aka.ms/dotnet/6.0/daily/dotnet-sdk-win-arm64.exe> |
| **macOS (x64)**     |  <https://aka.ms/dotnet/6.0/daily/dotnet-sdk-osx-x64.pkg>  |
| **macOS (arm64)**   | <https://aka.ms/dotnet/6.0/daily/dotnet-sdk-osx-arm64.pkg> |