how to change originating IP in HttpWebRequest

Question

I\'m running this application on a server that has assigned 5 IPs. I use HttpWebRequest to fetch some data from a website. But when I make the connection I have be able to s

Answer 1

Try this:

System.Net.WebRequest request = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(link);
request.ConnectionGroupName = "MyNameForThisGroup"; 
((HttpWebRequest)request).Referer = "http://application.com";
using (System.Net.WebResponse response = request.GetResponse())
{
    StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
    return sr.ReadToEnd();
}

Then try setting the ConnectionGroupName to something distinct per source ip you wish to use.

edit: use this in conjunction with the IP binding delegate from the answer above.