The deployment requirements for my app (a windows service written in C#) state the presence of a Proxy server.
From my interaction with the person who will install my app:
1. His company blocks access to internet via the proxy
2. He needs to provide the path to the proxy script in his IE Config.
3. He also needs to input a user-name/password.
My application needs to access a publicly hosted WebService. In preparation, I sent him a test Winform app. In the app.config file I used the setting mentioned in this post .NET client app: how to reach Web Services in case of proxy?
However, it did not work. I customized the proxy setting in App.config as per his IE settings, yet nothing seemed to work.
I don’t want to hard-code the proxy settings in my app using the System.Net classes. There is no doubt in my mind that I want to use the config file.
So, I want to install a proxy on a VPC image and try and get my application to run.
My question:
1. What is a good proxy that I can install on my VM (windows only – no linux/squid pls.) that will replicate the behaviour that I mentioned in 2 & 3 above.
2. In case it is of interest, the proxy settings I used was:
<system.net>
<defaultProxy >
<proxy usesystemdefault= “False“ proxyaddress=“http://10.1.10.10:8080“ bypassonlocal=“True“ />
</defaultProxy>
</system.net>
Assuming that the system will read the settings from IE, I also tried
<proxy autoDetect="true" />
It did not work.
Pls. let me know if my requirements are unclear.
The open source squid proxy has Windows binaries.
If you have a Windows Server OS in you VPC, you could try out Microsoft’s very own ISA Server. There’s a 180-day trial version here.