I’ve been using Visual Studio 2013 Express to make a C# website that uses SOAP to request services from another company. Everything was working fine, until one day I suddenly started getting HTTP 500 errors. Naturally the service provider said it wasn’t them, so out came Fiddler. Funnily enough the request worked straight away in Fiddler, so I needed to find out what the difference was between a Fiddler request and a request from my localhost.
I followed this guide here: http://docs.telerik.com/fiddler/Configure-Fiddler/Tasks/ConfigureDotNETApp
However:
GlobalProxySelection.Select = new WebProxy(“127.0.0.1”, 8888);
should now be:
WebRequest.DefaultWebProxy = new WebProxy(“127.0.0.1”, 8888);
Because of this issue, we can’t debug simply using ‘localhost’. So I used this guide to use a custom host name as opposed to ‘localhost’ – using the following locations as reference for the applicationhost.config file:
Pre-Visual Studio 2015
%userprofile%\documents\iisexpress\config\applicationhost.config
%userprofile%\my documents\iisexpress\config\applicationhost.configVisual Studio 2015+
$(solutionDir)\.vs\config\applicationhost.configIn Fiddler, because I’m using HTTPS, I had to go to Tools > Fiddler Options > HTTPS tab and check ‘Decrypt HTTPS traffic’
And finally I needed to add this line BEFORE my C# HttpWebRequest code for the request to work properly when Fiddler was running:
ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback +=(sender, cert, chain, sslPolicyErrors) => true;
I think that’s it…..