Setting a Web Proxy on a WebService in .NET 3.x
July 20th, 2008 | 
Author: A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article stating that Microsoft had changed how the proxy class for web services gets created. Many people found this helpful, but I got one question on the post that really needs to be answered in a new post:
Thanks, now can you tell us where to set the Proxy settings, .Proxy variable no longer exists, and ClientCredentials is not obvious if this is the replacement?
ClientCredentials is not the replacement. This is a situation where running the debugger and viewing the object model after the object is created is very helpful.
Since many of the properties in the web service are typed as interfaces or abstract classes, many of the properties we actually need won’t be visible during design time. All design time knows about is the types defined in the interface or abstract class. And since making an HTTP connection is only one of several ways we might connect using WCF, it does not make sense to have the proxy property part of that interface.
One of the properties of the web service’s proxy class is “EndPoint” which holds the definition of where our web service will be connecting to. Inside this property is another property, “Binding,” which is defined as System.ServiceModel.Channels.Binding. One of the implementations of System.ServiceModel.Channels.Binding is System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding. The BasicHttpBinding object is where the proxy definitions are defined.
If you just want to use the default web proxy that is defined in the operating system, you just need to make sure that UseDefaultWebProxy is set to true, which it is by default. If you want to set it to a specific address, you’ll want to set the ProxyAddress property to the location of the HTTP proxy, which can also be set in the configuration file for your application.
You can find the full documentation for the BasicHttpBinding class here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.servicemodel.basichttpbinding_members.aspx
To set the credentials for the proxy, you use ChannelFactory.Credentials. You can find a full description of this (and its limitations) here:
Other places talking about BasicHttpBinding and WCF
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- Configuring a WCF Binding for https- Both BasicHttpBinding and WSHttpBinding support Transport Security (https). However, neither do it by default. The binding must be configured correctly. Here is how to do it in code: BasicHttpBinding binding = new BasicHttpBinding(); …
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