How to specify proxy/authority for XmlDocument.Loa d()

[Manfred Braun]

Hi All,

I am trying to access xml-files in the internet from my intranet-page.
Making XmlDocument.Loa d() calls internally works fine, but not so to the
internet. I think the calls are failing, because we use a proxy-server.

Can I specify a specifix proxy in the call and/or in the
configuration-files? For the configuration-files, I am not finding samples,
which point out how to specify username and password. For the XmlDocument, I
even find nothing in this range, so, do I have to make a webRequest
"manually" specifying a proxy and pass the pulled data to the XmlDocument
after that?

Any help would really be very welcomed!

Best regards,
Manfred Braun

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Mannheim
Germany

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[Oleg Tkachenko]

Manfred Braun wrote:

I am trying to access xml-files in the internet from my intranet-page.
Making XmlDocument.Loa d() calls internally works fine, but not so to the
internet. I think the calls are failing, because we use a proxy-server.

Read "Supplying Authentication Credentials to XmlResolver when Reading
from a File" at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ngfromfile.asp
--
Oleg Tkachenko
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog
Multiconn Technologies, Israel

[Manfred Braun]

Hi Oleg,

sad to say, this lokks true. Anyway, it's not too much code, but eveythings
is too new for me .....
With help of MSDN/SDK I made the following working successfully:

//+++ excerpt
StreamReader oSR = null;
WebRequest objRequest =
WebRequest.Crea te("http://msdn.microsoft. com/rss.xml");

bool useProxy =
Boolean.Parse(S ystem.Configura tion.Configurat ionSettings.App Settings["usePro
xy"]);
if(useProxy)
{
string address, port, username, password, domain;
address =
System.Configur ation.Configura tionSettings.Ap pSettings["address"];
port = System.Configur ation.Configura tionSettings.Ap pSettings["port"];
username =
System.Configur ation.Configura tionSettings.Ap pSettings["username"];
password =
System.Configur ation.Configura tionSettings.Ap pSettings["password"];
domain =
System.Configur ation.Configura tionSettings.Ap pSettings["domain"];

WebProxy myProxy = new WebProxy(addres s, Int32.Parse(por t));
myProxy.BypassP roxyOnLocal = true;
NetworkCredenti al myCred = new NetworkCredenti al(username, password,
domain);
myProxy.Credent ials = myCred;

objRequest.Prox y = myProxy;
}

WebResponse objResponse = objRequest.GetR esponse();
oSR = new StreamReader(ob jResponse.GetRe sponseStream()) ;
oDS.ReadXml(oSR );

//--- excerpt

Anyway, thanks for your help. My sample above is from a code, where a
DataSet is used, while I use XmlDocument. But I am shure, I can adapt the
one or two lines of code to use XmlDocument!

Best regards,
Manfred
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Manfred Braun wrote:

and thanks for your posting. After studying this document, I found, that it does'nt resolve my problem going through a proxy-server. It would apply, to specify creadentials to the destination. But in my case, the destination-url is accessibly publicly and I have to deal with our proxy....

Yeah, you are right, that's not enough.
So you have to deal directly with WebRequest class. There are two ways
I'm aware of - direct one and elegant one. Former - create WebRequest,
set up its proxy property, get WebResponse and load XmlDocument from
response's stream.
More elegant way - encapsulate above WebRequest/WebResponse logic into
custom reusable XmlResolver.
--
Oleg Tkachenko
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog
Multiconn Technologies, Israel