I’m using HTTPWebRequest with a proxy. I have noticed if I set KeepAlive to true I get a 407 forbidden exception, when I set keep alive to false it works.
I was just wondering why is this?
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I’m using HTTPWebRequest with a proxy. I have noticed if I set KeepAlive to true I get a 407 forbidden exception, when I set keep alive to false it works.
I was just wondering why is this?
Because doing a keepalive to a proxy is a pointless waste of bandwidth. It sounds like your particular proxy server is smart enough to protect itself by issuing a “407” error response.
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The error is actually