Accessing an internet web service from a secure LAN

[David Brossard]

I'm currently developing web services and trying them out. I also try accessing external web services. However, although I can successfully reach and use an internal web service (on a server in my LAN), I can't reach outside web services. The operation fails.

Does anyone know what I can do to access a web service (eg Capescience's weather service)?

Thanks.

[Lasse Koskela]

The problem might be that you should use an HTTP proxy and your Java code doesn't do that. Which API are you using for the web service client?

[David Brossard]

I tried using a proxy with the following code

 
System.setProperty("http.proxyHost", proxyAddr); 
System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", proxyPort);

But then I get a 502 Bad Gateway error on both my local web services (which don't need the proxy anyway) and outside web services.

I'm using org.apache.axis.client.Call and org.apache.axis.client.Service...

Thanks for your help...

[Ian Murray]

Originally posted by David Brossard:
I'm currently developing web services and trying them out. I also try accessing external web services. However, although I can successfully reach and use an internal web service (on a server in my LAN), I can't reach outside web services. The operation fails.

Does anyone know what I can do to access a web service (eg Capescience's weather service)?

Thanks.

[Ian Murray]

Originally posted by David Brossard:
I'm currently developing web services and trying them out. I also try accessing external web services. However, although I can successfully reach and use an internal web service (on a server in my LAN), I can't reach outside web services. The operation fails.

Does anyone know what I can do to access a web service (eg Capescience's weather service)?

Thanks.

Try access through HTTP proxy - that should do it

[David Brossard]

I tried using a proxy with the following code


code:
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System.setProperty("http.proxyHost", proxyAddr); System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", proxyPort);

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But then I get a 502 Bad Gateway error on both my local web services (which don't need the proxy anyway) and outside web services.

I'm using org.apache.axis.client.Call and org.apache.axis.client.Service...

Thanks for your help...

The proxy isn't fixing it, it's making it worse. Or else I'm not handling it well...

[David Brossard]

Actually the bottom line is one should set the proxy with ant rather than programmatically as I suggested earlier on...

See http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/setproxy.html for further info.