If you use WebRequest, you can set the proxy on the request (rather than
globally).
For example, this works for me:
Public Class XpathThruProxy
Private Shared Function GetStreamForUri(Uri As System.String, ProxyUri as
System.String) as System.IO.Stream
Dim req as System.Net.WebRequest
req = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(Uri)
req.Proxy = new System.Net.WebProxy(ProxyUri, true) ' go through a proxy
server
return req.GetResponse().GetResponseStream()
End Function
Public Shared Sub Main()
try
Dim ProxyUri as System.String
ProxyUri= "http://127.0.0.1:3128" ' only if I run a proxy locally
'ProxyUri= "200.244.93.129:3128" ' a remote (working) proxy server
Dim xtr as New
System.Xml.XmlTextReader(GetStreamForUri("http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/tech
", ProxyUri))
Dim MyXMLDocument As New System.Xml.XPath.XPathDocument(xtr)
Dim xpn as System.Xml.XPath.XPathNavigator
xpn= MyXMLDocument.CreateNavigator()
Dim expr as System.Xml.XPath.XPathExpression
expr= xpn.Compile("//rss/channel/item")
'Display the selection.
Dim iterator as System.Xml.XPath.XPathNodeIterator = xpn.Select(expr)
while (iterator.MoveNext())
Dim nav2 as System.Xml.XPath.XPathNavigator =
iterator.Current.Clone()
nav2.Select("title")
nav2.MoveToFirstChild()
System.Console.WriteLine(" title: {0}", nav2.Value)
end while
Catch e as System.Exception
System.Console.WriteLine("Exception: " & e.ToString() )
End Try
End Sub
End Class
"John" <so*****@msnnotamucho.com> wrote in message
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news:ua**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... My firewall appears to be blocking an RSS XML feed from being returned
even thought port 80 is enabled. Can anyone help?
Dim proxyURI As New Uri("http://MyIP:80")
GlobalProxySelection.Select = New WebProxy(proxyURI)
Dim MyXMLDocument As New
XPathDocument(http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/tech)
Error :
The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to the remote
server
I added this to the web.config :
<system.net>
<defaultProxy>
<proxy proxyaddress = "http://127.0.0.1:80" bypassonlocal = "true"/>
</defaultProxy>
</system.net>
And now get this error :
The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a
receive
