We\'re in the process of replacing an old (5+ years) Windows service application built with VS2005 that makes an HTTP GET call. There are several things that make this difficul
As .NET bypasses proxies for localhost and 127.0.0.1, just hardcode your machine name instead for the url you're testing with.
//myUrl = "http://127.0.0.1/myservice"; myUrl = "http://mymachine/myservice";