Re: Creating a web reference to a URL beyond the company firewall

From: Jon Flanders[DevelopMentor] (jfland_at_develop.com)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 11:52:55 -0800

Download the wsdl outside of BizTalk. Import it through webreference - going
to your local wsdl instead of the live wsdl. When you setup the SendPort -
you can configure the SOAP Send Adapter to authenticate against the proxy
server (it is seperate tab under the send port adapter configuration) 

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"mauricethegp" <mauricethegp@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message 
news:DB365D7C-B207-4188-9A6B-7099EB5320AF@microsoft.com...
>I know that this may be an old chestnut to .NET developers and that there 
>are
> workarounds in normal .NET projects, but here goes anyway...
>
> The scenario is that I want to create a BizTalk application that will
> consume a web service. The web service is hosted on a computer which is on
> the public internet, outside the company firewall.  All access to such 
> public
> internet sites have to be routed via the company proxy server.
>
> Let's say for example:
> *  the web service is at www.supplier.com/webservices/theservice.asmx,
> *  the proxy server name (as shown in Internet Properties/Connections/Lan
> Settings) is companyproxy, using port 80
>
> I know I need to add a web reference via the "Add Web Reference" wizard.
>
> If I just give "Add Web Reference" the URL
> "http://www.supplier.com/webservices/theservice.asmx" then I get prompted 
> for
> username/password/domain. After supplying the valid credentials the 
> dialogue
> shows the documentation about the available services in "theservice.asmx" 
> in
> the browser pane, but has a message in the "web services found at this 
> URL"
> to the effect "There was an error downloading
> 'http://www.supplier.com/webservices/theservice.asmx'.
> The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to the remote 
> server."
>
> The documentation for Add Web Reference says that I have to include the
> proxy server address in the URL. I've tried
> "http://companyproxy:80/www.supplier.com/webservices/theservice.asmx",
> "http://companyproxy:80/login?url=http://www.supplier.com/webservices/theservice.asmx"
> and lots of other combinations, but so far all I get are syntax or other
> errors.
>
> How do I specify this URL?
>
> PS I know that in a normal C# project, I can create a proxy class using
> wsdl.exe and include that class in the project, then instantiate an object 
> of
> that class and attach a Web Proxy object with the default or specified
> credentials. I can't see how I can use this technique in BizTalk, though,
> where I don't seem to have the option of meddling with the source files...
>
> I hope someone out there can help. It MUST be a common enough scenario...
>
> -- 
> Steve Gunning

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