Consuming Web Service on Shared Hosting Platform

**Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)** · Mar 20 '08, 07:55 PM

Re: Consuming Web Service on Shared Hosting Platform

Your host may restrict outgoing ports. That is the first thing I think of.

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"Barrie Wilson" <bwilson@nowher e.comwrote in message
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>
I have a really simple test app which consumes two public web services
(one stock quote and one Amazon books collection); it works just fine
when posted on my local servers but when I publish it to either of my two
public servers (shared hosting accounts), I get the .ASPX page ok but when
I click the button to access the web services I get nowhere; more
specifically, I get this message at the top of the stack:
>
"[SocketException (0x274c): A connection attempt failed because the
connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or
established connection failed because connected host has failed to
respond"
>
ok, the easy advice is to call the hosting service and check their docs
but (a) they never know what's wrong, and (b) they don't have much in the
way of docs ... sure, I can change hosting providers but it's gonna be a
real pain so I'd like to avoid it ... if I can
>
My question is whether anyone might have an idea where the problem is, and
more generally, is it common to find this is a problem on a shared host
platform? If it is a common problem, are there any hosting services where
it's NOT a problem .. hopefully one that's on the low end of the pricing
scale; right now I just need to do some proof of concept work and have it
publicly accessible.
>
Thanks for any help ...
>
BW
>
>
>

**=?Utf-8?B?UGV0ZXIgQnJvbWJlcmcgW0MjIE1WUF0=?=** · Mar 20 '08, 08:25 PM

RE: Consuming Web Service on Shared Hosting Platform

Some "el-cheapo" web hosting companies (GoDaddy.com comes to mind) restrict
things like outbound webrequests. Sound ludicrous on the face of it, but
that's what they do.
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"Barrie Wilson" wrote:

>
I have a really simple test app which consumes two public web services (one
stock quote and one Amazon books collection); it works just fine when
posted on my local servers but when I publish it to either of my two public
servers (shared hosting accounts), I get the .ASPX page ok but when I click
the button to access the web services I get nowhere; more specifically, I
get this message at the top of the stack:
>
"[SocketException (0x274c): A connection attempt failed because the
connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or
established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond"
>
ok, the easy advice is to call the hosting service and check their docs but
(a) they never know what's wrong, and (b) they don't have much in the way of
docs ... sure, I can change hosting providers but it's gonna be a real pain
so I'd like to avoid it ... if I can
>
My question is whether anyone might have an idea where the problem is, and
more generally, is it common to find this is a problem on a shared host
platform? If it is a common problem, are there any hosting services where
it's NOT a problem .. hopefully one that's on the low end of the pricing
scale; right now I just need to do some proof of concept work and have it
publicly accessible.
>
Thanks for any help ...
>
BW
>
>
>
>

**Barrie Wilson** · Mar 21 '08, 01:25 AM

Re: Consuming Web Service on Shared Hosting Platform

thanks, Peter, Cowboy ... I found a way to get around it using an
unpublished proxy maintained by the ISP ...

"Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]" <pbromberg@yaho o.NoSpamMaam.co mwrote in message
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Some "el-cheapo" web hosting companies (GoDaddy.com comes to mind)
restrict
things like outbound webrequests. Sound ludicrous on the face of it, but
that's what they do.
-- Peter

Site: http://www.eggheadcafe.com
UnBlog: http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com
Short Urls & more: http://ittyurl.net
>
>
"Barrie Wilson" wrote:
>

>>
>I have a really simple test app which consumes two public web services
>(one
>stock quote and one Amazon books collection); it works just fine when
>posted on my local servers but when I publish it to either of my two
>public
>servers (shared hosting accounts), I get the .ASPX page ok but when I
>click
>the button to access the web services I get nowhere; more specifically,
>I
>get this message at the top of the stack:
>>
>"[SocketException (0x274c): A connection attempt failed because the
>connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or
>established connection failed because connected host has failed to
>respond"
>>
>ok, the easy advice is to call the hosting service and check their docs
>but
>(a) they never know what's wrong, and (b) they don't have much in the way
>of
>docs ... sure, I can change hosting providers but it's gonna be a real
>pain
>so I'd like to avoid it ... if I can
>>
>My question is whether anyone might have an idea where the problem is,
>and
>more generally, is it common to find this is a problem on a shared host
>platform? If it is a common problem, are there any hosting services
>where
>it's NOT a problem .. hopefully one that's on the low end of the pricing
>scale; right now I just need to do some proof of concept work and have
>it
>publicly accessible.
>>
>Thanks for any help ...
>>
>BW
>>
>>
>>
>>

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