HELP! Problems with proxy.asp from Macromedia's site and company firewall

[mpusateri]

I'm having problems with the proxy.asp page from Macromedia grabbing the RSS feed and bringing it past my companies firewall. (Below is that script) At least I think it's a firewall issue. What could be the problem? Is there something I can change or add to the asp script to get it past the firewall? I tried to talk to my IS department and they never even heard of RSS (how sad).
Here's the error that gets returned:

Error Type:
(0x80072EE2)
/proxy.asp, line 14


this is line 14:
MyConnection.Send


Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

	Response.Buffer=True 
	Dim MyConnection, TheURL
	
	' Specifying the URL
	TheURL = "http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/resources/macromedia_resources.xml"
	
	 Set MyConnection = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
	' Connecting to the URL
	MyConnection.Open "GET", TheURL, False
		
	' Sending and getting data
	MyConnection.Send 
	TheData = MyConnection.responseText

	'Set the appropriate content type
	Response.ContentType = MyConnection.getResponseHeader("Content-Type")
	Response.Write (TheData)

	Set MyConnection = Nothing

[tupps]

The best way to debug this is to get access to your firewall logs (or exception reports). Get into the office in the morning/night when no one else is around and run your code. That way you know that you are the only person access the firewall at the time.

My guess is that the best way to fix this is to change the firewall.

Thanks

Luke

[XMLEvangelist]

Hi mpusateri,

The open method has two extra optional parameters, bstrUser and bstrPassword. Add them after the false (Async) parameter.

You might need to get an account to use for the application, as I doubt you'll want to use your network credentials. Talk to the IT department to get that.

Hope that helps!

[mpusateri]

Great.. Thanks for the info, I'll give it a try as soon as I can.

Thank You!

[mpusateri]

Just tried it and it doesn't work. I guess this is a stupid question, but the bstrUser & bstrPassword is used to get in and out of my firewall right, and not the server holding the XML doc? And is that correct below... the UN and PWD like I have it (of course real UN and PWD inserted), or should they be in quotes or something?

Thanks

	Response.Buffer=True 
	Dim MyConnection, TheURL

	' Specifying the URL
	TheURL = "http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/resources/macromedia_resources.xml"
	 Set MyConnection = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")

	' Connecting to the URL
	MyConnection.Open "GET", TheURL, False, bstrUser, bstrPassword
	
        ' Sending and getting data
	MyConnection.Send 
	TheData = MyConnection.responseText

	'Set the appropriate content type
	Response.ContentType = MyConnection.getResponseHeader("Content-Type")
	Response.Write (TheData)
	Set MyConnection = Nothing

[enemem]

that's ASP, right? You'd probably be better off moving the thread into the backend/server board, more people with ASP knowledge will read it there...

- n.