I have built a Web Service and a Windows app.
I want the Windows app to access the Web Service as a Web Reference.
On my machine I have no problem adding the Web Service to my Windows app as a Web Reference:

    http://localhost/AssistWebService/Service1.asmx

The problem is when I upload the Web Service and get an error when I try to create the web ref from the remote service and then try to add the Web Service as a Web Reference to the Windows app.

I receive the following error:

There was an error downloading 'https://www.sbbmutual.com/AssistWebService/Service1.asmx'.

The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to the remote server.

What do I have to change to make a web service usable on the remote server???

JOAN

Initially, I'm wondering if a webservice can correctly talk to an SSL connection. I tried the URL of your webservice in the browser and got a notice about accepting an untrusted SSL certificate. After accepting that things looked fine. I could see your WS methods and such.

I then tried your web service as a web reference in a VS project... at first I got a similar notice about the security certificate, but then I got this error: "The proxy settings on this computer are not configured correctly for web discovery. Click the Help button for more information." This is very likely due to me being behind a firewall, but it's possible that webservices don't like SSL... or maybe at least VS doesn't. Hopefully someone else can shed some light on this subject.

Peter

Peter,
you mean:
even I can use IE or WSDL.exe to access webservice correctly, my web page aspx files in localhost are still maybe cannot to access webservice on internet, since I behind the firewall ? does web page aspx files in localhost work diferent with IE or WSDL.exe ?