Is There a Way to Make Remote Calls to ASP.NET Development Web Server?

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Ash picture Ash · Mar 17, 2009 · Viewed 17.3k times · Source

I know that generally speaking, this cant be done, that is get another PC to call a site hosted under the ASP.NET DEvelopment Web Server remotely (generally you can only use localhost:port to get to it).

But I was wondering if anyone has seen, or knows of a way to get around it? I am a RESTful API developer in my office, and I would like the PHP guys to test the APIs on my machine so that I can have the Visual Studio 2005 debugger attached, and I can more easily find problems.

THe main issue is, that my machine is a Vista machine, and unfortunately, the APIs I have developed do not work under IIS7, even Classic Application Pool mode (which eliminates hosting them on a local IIS impossible).

Alternatively, is there a way to use IIS6 on another machine to suite my needs?

Update

Based on the advise that I have gotten and after much trial and error with the suggestions made, I was able to get Squid to act as a reverse-proxy and do exactly what I wanted to do. I have blogged about it http://www.ashleyangell.com/index.php/2009/03/configuring-a-basic-reverse-proxy-in-squid-on-windows-website-accelerator/ in case anyone else wants to do the same thing.

Answer

Matt Kocaj picture Matt Kocaj · May 25, 2010

This is substantially easier than the Squid option:

"Accessing the Visual Studio ASP.NET Development Server from iPhone"

Also there is an update that works well under Windows 7, too:

"iPhone Accessing the Visual Studio ASP.NET Development Server - Windows 7 Update"

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