Comments on: SSIS - download a file from a website http://www.proteanit.com/b/2008/05/14/ssis-download-a-file-from-a-website/ pro·te·an (prō'tē-ən, prō-tē'-) "Exhibiting considerable versatility or diversity" Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:05:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Frank http://www.proteanit.com/b/2008/05/14/ssis-download-a-file-from-a-website/#comment-22932 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:55:30 +0000 http://www.proteanit.com/b/2008/05/14/ssis-download-a-file-from-a-website/#comment-22932 Hi James, Your point about hard coding is valid. It's always best to derive or configure any types of parameters. If I'm understanding you correctly you are talking about authenticaion against a proxy. When I wrote this code, I was using these credentials to authenticate with a 3rd party website rather than the proxy server (which used Windows authentication anyways). e.g. If I've protected a folder on my website with an apache .htaccess file, then I can use these credentials to authenticate. I think that for a corporate intranet/sharepoint site, your idea of using default credentials would be perfect though. Cheers Frank Hi James,

Your point about hard coding is valid. It’s always best to derive or configure any types of parameters.

If I’m understanding you correctly you are talking about authenticaion against a proxy. When I wrote this code, I was using these credentials to authenticate with a 3rd party website rather than the proxy server (which used Windows authentication anyways).

e.g. If I’ve protected a folder on my website with an apache .htaccess file, then I can use these credentials to authenticate.

I think that for a corporate intranet/sharepoint site, your idea of using default credentials would be perfect though.

Cheers
Frank

]]> by: James Pua http://www.proteanit.com/b/2008/05/14/ssis-download-a-file-from-a-website/#comment-22929 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:29:31 +0000 http://www.proteanit.com/b/2008/05/14/ssis-download-a-file-from-a-website/#comment-22929 Hi Frank, I think the credential should be set to WebProxy instead of WebConnection and you could use the .UseDefaultCredential = True to avoid hard code username and password in source code (or in configuration file) Hi Frank,
I think the credential should be set to WebProxy instead of WebConnection and you could use the .UseDefaultCredential = True to avoid hard code username and password in source code (or in configuration file)

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