I was wondering if anyone can recommend a good book / web site / blog or article (anything!) that can help demystify the proxy, not in terms of its use as a product, but purely from a .net developers point of view.
I know that in SOA systems, somewhere along the line you're bound to bump into a proxy, and this (in my experience) usually causes a deployment headache. Infact I've never really seen proxies as useful (but that's just me).
There are a couple of things that are specifically bothering me:
- There is a proxy management system in IE, but I can't seem to figure out to what degree these IE settings impact on the server's connectivity as a whole. IE should in an ideal world just be a browser, yet it seems IE settings can effect the connectivity of the whole machine.
I cant seem to bypass proxy on local addresses using code. For example the following code just doesn't work:
proxy.BypassProxyOnLocal = true; // Where proxy = System.Net.WebProxy
Would be nice if someone has written a proxy walk through because it seems there is a lot of confusion on the subject of poxies, I mean proxies.
Thank you