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Re: MSDN Help and Proxy Server

Saurabh Jain [MSFT]
11/14/2005 4:37:38 PM

We are sorry for the inconvenience. This is a known issue. We have posted a
workaround at

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/showpost.aspx?postid=125273&siteid=1

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regards,

Saurabh Jain

VS Core Dev Team

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Re: MSDN Help and Proxy Server

mfr
11/15/2005 12:14:33 AM

Thank you for the reply. I've modified the config file (as per the link) but
now have a different problem. I am now getting "the request failed with http
status 403: Forbidden (the server denies the specified URL. Contact the
server administrator."

Regards,
Dave.

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Re: MSDN Help and Proxy Server

Saurabh Jain [MSFT]
11/17/2005 1:13:20 AM

Hi,

I forwarded your response to Paul, and here is his assessment of the
problem. You can monitor the traffic using the fiddler tool
(http://www.fiddlertool.com)

_____________________________________________
From: Paul McKee
To: Saurabh Jain
Subject: RE: MSDN Help and Proxy Server

One of the folks (MartinDolphin) in the thread you referenced had a similar
problem after applying the workaround, except the status was 407 Method not
allowed. I assume that both that and mfr's problem are due to proxy
misconfiguration or overzealousness. I don't see how such results could be
coming from MSDN's servers.

The w3.org's description of this status does suggest an avenue for further
exploration:

403 Forbidden

The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it.
Authorization will not help and the request SHOULD NOT be repeated. If the
request method was not HEAD and the server wishes to make public why the
request has not been fulfilled, it SHOULD describe the reason for the
refusal in the entity. If the server does not wish to make this information
available to the client, the status code 404 (Not Found) can be used
instead.

Perhaps if the customer were to log the HTTP traffic, as explanation of the
failure would be visible.

Thanks,

Paul

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Re: MSDN Help and Proxy Server

James
11/23/2005 11:30:16 AM

I read the forum article and tried the solution, but our proxy server runs on
port 8080 and there was no option for setting a proxy port in this solution.
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