the client and enter it to the windows service. Do I need to mess with the
"LastUpdate" file date. If the "LastUpdate" date is newer than a date I keep
"Dominick Baier [DevelopMentor]" wrote:
> Hello Panayotis,
>
> so - i guess this proxy does windows integrated authentication.
>
> Are you using HttpWebRequest for downloading??
>
> This class has a .Proxy property where you can set the proxy.
>
> The WebProxy class in turn has a .Credentials property.
>
> To authenticate against the proxy using windows auth you set
>
> proxy.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
>
> and assign the proxy to the webrequest
>
> that should do the trick.
>
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Dominick Baier - DevelopMentor
>
http://www.leastprivilege.com >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have created a web service using C# that needs to check whether some
> > XML files are updated, if they are, it downloads them (saves them to
> > disk) and processes them by updating data in a back-end MS SQL
> > database.
> >
> > The client has a proxy server installed on their network and they
> > request that the windows service be run under a low privileged account
> > that will only be able to download the XML files through the proxy as
> > well as insert/update/delete data in the MS SQL database.
> >
> > In addition, they do not want to store the proxy info (server name,
> > username, password and domain) to a file, even in encrypted form, but
> > they request that the windows service should "automagically" download
> > the files via the proxy server by retrieving the SID token of the user
> > account under which the windows service will be run from time to time.
> >
> > I am no expert in this, so I do not know if it is doable. How can I
> > retrieve the SID of the currently "service user account" in order to
> > present the appropriate network credentials to the proxy server and
> > download the files ?
> >
> > Can anyone give any pointers, code examples, anything really ?
> >
> > Clueless,
> > Thank you for your help.
>
>
>
