RE: httpwebrequest with https behind proxy with authentication

Hi Andrea,

From your description, you're using WebRequest component to download a file
from a remote webservice. That webservice is accessed through a proxy and
the proxy also require authentication. However, you found your webservice
client always get proxy authentication error, correct?

Based on the code snippet you provided, you directly create a
NetworkCredential (with username/password pair) and send it via
WebProxy.Credentials. One potential things here is that whether you've
confirmed what kind of Authentication Type is the webproxy using?
Integrated windows or basic or ...?

Generally, when sending credential through NetworkCredential, it is
recommended that you explicitly supply the authenticationType(via
CredentialCache class). e.g.

=========
CredentialCache cache = new CredentialCache();
cache.Add( new Uri(proxy.Url),
// Web service URL
"Negotiate",
// Kerberos or NTLM
new NetworkCredential("username", "password", "domainname")
);

proxy.Credentials = cache;
=========

the following thread has also mentioned this:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1772251&SiteID=1

You can try looking at this to see whether this is the cause.

BTW, also check the behavior when you visit it in IE(whether there is any
warning or error you interactively ignore), since any interactively
ignorable error will cause exception in programamtic code.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead



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From: "Andrea Pierini" <andrea_maticad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: httpwebrequest with https behind proxy with authentication
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:26:19 +0100

Hi to all,
I have a problem to download a file with httpwebrequest when

_ https protocol is used
_ the client is behind a proxy that requires authentication

For example consider the following code:

WebRequest req =
WebRequest.Create("https://www.domus3d.com/ws/test.txt";);
req.Proxy = new WebProxy("http://192.168.0.6:3128";, true); //
Proxy available at IP 192.168.0.6 on port 3128
req.Proxy.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("user", "pwd",
"domain"); // Proxy network credentials
WebResponse res = req.GetResponse();

I always receive "The remote server returned an error: (407) Proxy
Authentication Required.". What's wrong? Note that if I make the request
over http the code works and with Internet Explorer I can open the file
either over http or over https.

Thanks in advance for any help,
Andrea Pierini

PS: I've seen that many users experience the same problem with WSUS 3.0
behind a proxy with authentication



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