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

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From: John Saunders (johnwsaundersiii)
Date: 12/03/04 

Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 11:29:01 -0500

"Codex Twin" <codex@more.com> wrote in message
news:eE$3U6U2EHA.3132@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>I am re-sending this in the hope that it might illicit a response. I have a
> corporate client who forces their workstations to get the proxy server
> details using an automatic proxy discovery script.
>
> Unfortunately, the .NET Framework does not support automatic proxy
> discovery
> scripts. See:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5BLN%5D;307220

This article has nothing to do with web forms applications. In a Web Forms
application, the browser sends a request to the server and gets an HTML
response. The browser may be configured to run an automatic proxy discovery
script and to use the discovered proxy to send to the server. The server
should neither know nor care whether one or more proxies were in the path
between the client and the server.

> The article above details that the way to workaround this is to edit the
> machine.config file. This is impossible for me. Luckily there is a
> programmtic way of assigning the proxy settings. The way to do it is
> detailed in this article:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q318140/
>
> The second article explains how to handle requests when there is a proxy
> server between the .NET client and the web service. Unfortunately the
> solution only deals with Web Services. The WebService class has a Proxy
> property to which an object of type of IWebProxy can be passed - and all
> is
> good.

...

> But in my case, I have an ASP.NET web forms app, not a Web Service. So how
> do I try and route my client requests via the Proxy server
> programmatically?

As I said, "you don't, the browser does".

Obviously something isn't working the way you expect it to, and that makes
you think that you need to do something about proxies. Please tell us what
the symptom is, and we can help you find the disease. The disease is
probably not "server-side proxy setup".

John Saunders

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