ESRI Misleads The Public, pt. 1

The ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 .NET Web ADF doesn't work very well behind a proxy when trying to access WMS resources, or other internet ArcGIS Server resources.

...which is why ESRI created a obscure file located on your ADF-installed machine (C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\DotNet\ProxyServer.config). This config file will help you help the ADF with proxy server settings and such.

The 'Knowledge Base' Technical Articles section of the ESRI support website has a 'How To' article that explains how to configure this file to get out from under the oppressive foot of an coorprate Proxy server.

However, this article leads to nothing but misery.

Here, they foolishly instruct you to do the following.


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To configure ArcGIS Server to work with a proxy server, change the following settings:

Enabled: Determines whether Web requests by .NET ADF components pass through the proxy server or not.

Valid values:

TRUE

or

FALSE

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Try as you might, these changes simply don't work.

However, if you try LOWER CASE values, everything will work just fine.

Valid values:

true


or

false