Error when attaching a remote XML source

Question

Hello,
When I try and attach a remote XML source to my XSL file,
Dreamweaver CS3
tells me "Unable to locate or parse the XML source".
The XML file in question is located at
http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=UKXX0085
- which is a fully
functioning URL to an XML page - I can load it okay, and I
can view the XML
source.
Why does Dreamweaver report that it cannot access it? If I
open the source
of that URL and save it as a .xml file and attach it to my
XSL locally, it
works just fine - so it works locally but not remotely. The
source is likely
to change frequently, so attaching a local XML file is not an
option.
If I ignore the Dreamweaver error message and use that source
anyway, the
browser just responds with "An error occured while loading
XML document
http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=UKXX0055".
Error message was: A
connection with the server could not be established ".
The only thing I can think of is, the URL to the XML source
doesn't end in
".xml" - but then again, hardly any XML sources on the web do
so I can't be
the first person who wants to try and incorporate one in
their site like
this!
Any help appreciated!
Cheers,
D.

Answer 1

> I'm told that, in the ASP that uses the XSL fragment, I
can define the
> proxy server manually so that the request can still be
made. Try as I
> might I cannot find any code for ASP.net or ASP VBScript
that allows me to
> manually specify the proxy to be used (or, indeed, to
force the code to
> use the browsers default proxy). Any ideas?
Okay, now using this in a new file called web.config
<configuration>
<system.net>
<defaultProxy>
<proxy
usesystemdefault = "false"
proxyaddress="
http://myproxy.blah.blah:80"
bypassonlocal="false"
/>
</defaultProxy>
</system.net>
</configuration>
All is well - except, that restricts the app to people who
are using this
proxy - any idea how to fix that code to make it default to
the users
browser settings? (Which I thought was the default in .Net
but maybe not??).
D.