What is a good proxy for me to install and test my Windows Service ?

Question

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 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/127241/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.

Answer 1

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.