无法从Asp.Net MVC连接到远程服务器

Question

I'm trying to get the data from external website using webclient inside my Asp.Net MVC application. I'm using the following code to get the text.

using (WebClient client = new WebClient()) 
{
      string htmlCode = client.DownloadString("http://google.com");    
}

But, I'm getting The operation has timed out exception.

If I use the same code within WPF App or WinForms App, its working perfectly. Is there any configuration I'm missing in my Web Application?

note: I have tried using WebRequest class and no success with that too.

Answer 1

Old question but the answer for future generations might be that you need to use a web proxy. Something like this:

WebClient client = new WebClient();
WebProxy proxyObject = new WebProxy("http://yourproxy.something:1234/", true);
client.Proxy = proxyObject;

Answer 2

We too got the same error. After adding the below code in Web.Confing issue has been resolved for us.

  <system.net>
    <defaultProxy useDefaultCredentials="true" >
    </defaultProxy>
  </system.net>