Re: Rerouting Requests via a Proxy because of .NET "bug"

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From: Codex Twin (codex_at_more.com)
Date: 12/03/04 

Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 17:54:22 -0000

"John Saunders" <johnwsaundersiii at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Codex Twin" <codex@more.com> wrote in message
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> >
> ...
> > John
> >
> > The scenario is this: The server application I have built uses the
ChartFX
> > (by SoftwareFX) control. This control causes the download of half a
dozen
> > or
> > so "client-side components". These are nothing more than .NET assemblies
> > which allow all the fancy dynamic chart customisation tools on the
> > browser.
> > One of the conditions for the client-side dlls to work is that the
client
> > machine has to have the .NET framework installed.
> >
> > These same machines, being behind the firewall, uses the automatic proxy
> > discovery script to determine the proxy server settings.
> > Now, because of the problem detailed in the first article
> > (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5BLN%5D;307220) and
> > the
> > fact that the .NET Framework does not support proxy discovery scripts,
the
> > client machine cannot see get the proxy server settings and the charts
> > fail.
>
> Please be more specific. Exactly what do you mean when you say "the charts
> fail"?
>
> > When the machine.config file is amended as the article explains, then it
> > works. I do not have access to their machine.config files, hence the
> > programmatic way of supplying proxy server settings as detailed in the
> > second article, which as you have rightly said, only deals with Web
> > Services.
> >
> > My problem has been where to impose this programmatic code, and what the
> > correct code is.
>
> Whatever the solution is, it will be client-side.
>
> Have you spoken to SoftwareFX about this? You may not be the first to have
> this problem.
>
> John Saunders
>

SoftwareFX have not responded (yet).
I'm halfway there, but have not been able to simulate a Request from a
ChartFX client object. So not there at all, I guess.

Thank you and have a nice weekend...

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