Hi stackoverflow users.
My server setup is the following:
A webserver with access on http/80 running www.domain.com
A app server with access to the internal network (db etc.) running a webservice
I have this simple little server setup problem.
Now I want to call my webservice from a ajax script from a website on my webserver. But since my application server does not have access to the internet this will (in my mind) not be possible since the javascript (running in the end-users browser) shoud have access to that webservice.
I came up with the solution by inventing a webservice on the webserver calling the webservice on my application server, but thats a odd solution, does any of you have a idea how to solve this?
I don't think you can do this. You will have to provide some thing on WebServer using which end user can access your App Server.
You have multiple options for this
PageMethods
Web Services on WebServer which will relay ajax calls to the App Server
Hope this info helps you.
If I understand correctly, you are just just using a webservice as a proxy through some network firewalls. There are tools that will do this for you, however, if you are running a simple service, then I don't see a problem with your setup.
One such tool for IIS is Application Request Routing
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I'm trying to understand if there is a way to make a web application run on the local computer(browser) without IIS.
My main objective is to transform my web application (that is on the internet) to a software that runs on the local computer without using the internet and without IIS.
My idea is to distributed my webapp between my colleagues and not forcing them to work online and not needing an internet connection.
I have a MVC web app with 3 pages and a couple of methods on the server side.
The idea of the application is to get proprieties from a form that I implemented on one of the pages of my web application and transform the proprieties on the client side to JSON and send it to the server, the server will generate XML file according to the JSON object and let the client download the XML file that were generated.
The flow of it:
1.The Client fill the form in my site.
2.The form become JSON object on the client side.
3.The JSON object that stored the properties of the form(filled by the client) is send to the server.
4.The server get the JSON object and generated XML document from it.
5.The client download the generated XML file.
Very simple web application.
I know that I can run HTML page by clicking it and the page will display on the browser but I need the server side to be working too to carry out actions.
So my question is : How can I make my web application run without internet ?
With the constrains:
No IIS required.
Working with .NET 4.0. (OWIN 2.0 - Not good)
No internet require.
No installation required to the computer ill pass this web app.
The server side code wont be expose when I send this application to my friends.
I read a couple of articles about OWIN, SingalR, Cassini and WCF but its all very vague...
If someone could provide me with a guide lines it will be very helpful.
Thanks a lot.
You can definitely self host a .NET web application using OWIN. Unfortunately documentation and information about it is vague and confusing at best. The fact that you're using MVC makes it somewhat easier as you may be able to directly use the self-host packages from Nuget for self hosting Web API. There may be similar packages for MVC.
I don't have recent experience but a Nuget search for "MVC Self Host" should yield some results.
Below is a link with an example. But the term you are looking for is definitely "self host". It can be done via a console window or (more complex) a windows service. It will likely use some form of OWIN but you can probably find some startup code to copy and paste into your project, usually in the form of a Startup.cs file.
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/4b0136/working-with-owin-hosting-and-self-hosting-in-Asp-Net/
I've created a Hello World WCF service that uses the ASP.NET Development Server - I launch the client which opens a page in my web browser, HelloWorldService.svc, then this triggers the command prompt to open and print out a Hello World message.
I don't fully understand this chain of action or how it's useful.
I'm trying to create a WCF service that acts as a server that allows users to connect to the server and perform a file upload - I will take this file and store it locally on my machine.
For now, allowing this to work locally on only my PC is fine but I really don't know where to begin to accomplish this. Any advice would be appreciated.
EDIT: I NEED to use WCF. So please don't suggest alternative solutions.
WCF is arguably overkill. Simplest case, just use the standrad .Net FileUpload control.
Here are some examples:
ASP.NET File Upload
http://asp.net-tutorials.com/controls/file-upload-control/
Which leads to the question "When should I use WCF"? Here are a couple of answers:
When & where I should use WCF
http://forums.asp.net/t/1480028.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512038.aspx
http://forums.asp.net/t/1478962.aspx
Finally, here are a couple of links that describe WCF-based file transfer services:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/166763/WCF-Streaming-Upload-Download-Files-Over-HTTP
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsdesktop/Upload-files-using-a-REST-13f16af2
I've got a client who requires a secure transaction made over HTTPS. They do not provide any web services to consume, so instead they have a simple post over HTTPS with SSL. I have two applications that need to utilize this service, one is a website, one is an iOS app, so I figured to save some time and effort, I would write a proxy web service that both of these applications would use to pass data back and forth between the client's system.
So I have the web service sitting on a server, with an exposed web method which is being consumed by the application. The variables are in the method, can someone please help me with sending that data via https POST to the required URL? I've never done anything like this before and I'm a bit lost. The web service is programmed in C#.
If you are using .NET 4.5, you can use the System.Net.Http.HttpClient
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.http.httpclient.aspx
or, System.Net.HttpWebRequest if you are using older version of the framework.
Here's an example
HttpWebRequest with https in C#
I have simple asp.net webservice has login method and its deployed on IIS server url is http://sitename.domain.org:9111/membership/membershipdir.asmx.
My network team created a SSL proxy url on proxy server (i think it is apache) for this web service site.Now webservice can access through proxy like this https://www.domain.org/webservices/spws/Membership/membershipdir.asmx.
It works fine but when I invoke the webservice method. the result window url showing on http://servername.domain.org:9111/Membership/membershipdir.asmx/Login
Now network team complaining the port 9111 still exposes to public for the login portion. something has to change in application. I am not understanding what should I change in application level.
I am also not understanding why results on showing with server name without proxy name?
Anybody have any clue?
Check out: What's the best method in ASP.NET to obtain the current domain? to always use the same domain the user made the initial request to.
Now, I'm not sure about the proxy server situation... if the proxy server is making any changes, it should be doing the opposite on the way back out... so I really can't speak to that problem... but, regardless, make sure you are using the original request domain by either using relative paths, or by the method in the Question linked to above.
Following scenario:
Having a hosted IE web browser control and an in-app web server (like this one).
The web server runs at (e.g.) http://127.0.0.1:14284 and the web browser calls this URL.
Now we have a customer which has a proxy server configured in IE options, and also checked "bypass proxy on local addresses".
Unfortunately, the hosted IE web browser control still used the proxy settings, even for the local URL http://127.0.0.1:14284.
My question is:
Am I somehow able to tell my hosted web browser to always directly call my hosted web server, without going through a proxy?
(I found this thread but still am unsure how to apply this to my question)
I think you have to do some interop, as the docs say you can disable the proxy with the InternetSetOption function. There are a lot of flags you can pass to this function you need INTERNET_OPTION_PROXY or INTERNET_OPTION_PER_CONNECTION_OPTION, theres also a kb-article which describes how to set the proxy settings.
I hope I helped you a bit :)