While developing an app and hosting the REST API on my own machine images were not shown and the http request were not visible in Fiddler on iOS.
I tracked down this to the IPlatformServices.GetStreamAsync call where you're initiating the CFNetworkHandler without the UseSystemProxy=true parameter.
As of this related bug: https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19135 it is needed to honor the system proxy settings.
Please add in the next build or make a dependency on ModernHttpClient so we will be able to use our own settings and expose a HttpClientFactory of ours for our applications.
Thanks,
Attila