I'm about to launch a site that was working well until I found the following hiccup:
I can't request a Yahoo! Pipe over SSL.
So the pages that require SSL are now missing a piece of their functionality unless I figure out a way around this; obviously, this could be done if I use an SSL-hosted page on my app to request the Yahoo! pipe for me.
I've seen solutions like http://www.iisproxy.net/license.html, but it seems to be a bit heavy for what I'm trying to do.
Can't I do this with a simple ASHX handler? Or is it more complex than that?
Thank you,
Michael
Thank you, John -- in case it's helpful to anyone else, here's the code I'm using in my ASHX file:
public override void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
{
var strURL = context.Server.UrlDecode(context.Request["url"]);
WebResponse objResponse = default(WebResponse);
WebRequest objRequest = default(WebRequest);
string result = null;
objRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create(strURL);
objResponse = objRequest.GetResponse();
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(objResponse.GetResponseStream());
result = sr.ReadToEnd();
//clean up StreamReader
sr.Close();
//WRITE OUTPUT
context.Response.ContentType = "application/json";
context.Response.Write(result);
context.Response.Flush();
}
However, I was getting a couple extra characters (as opposed to the version that came direct from Yahoo! Pipes), so I had to remove those before parsing the JSON.