WPF application with rest requests and proxy concerns

Question

Note - this question is not specifically about WFP - but the problem presents itself within a WPF application.

I am writing a WPF app for Windows - C#. It will do some Rest requests to a server I have publicly available.

This application will be delivered to external clients.Do I have to consider proxy implications from their side when they are running my application?

If so I don't find that much info out there about designing your code around this issue. I am worried that I am over complicating the issue by using things like HttpClient and HttpClientHandler etc. and then having to wrap all this stuff with a UI and further complicate my application.

What should my approach be, and does anyone know of any good online tutorial that can explain this stuff simply.

Answer 1

This application will be delivered to external clients. Do I have to consider proxy implications from their side when they are running my application?

I would think that the client machine's network behind a firewall will it allow outgoing traffic to make outside contact with an external resource would be the consideration.

If so I don't find that much info out there about designing your code around this issue. I am worried that I am over complicating the issue by using things like HttpClient and HttpClientHandler etc. and then having to wrap all this stuff with a UI and further complicate my application.

Well in order to make contact with a Restful service, you are going to have to use HttpClient there is no coming around it.

You should try to implement some kind of SoC, like a Service Layer that holds code for the HTTPClint requests called upon by the UI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_concerns