Hi,

I am trying to use a web service on an ISPs server and keep getting the
following message:

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

Fortunately (so I thought), looking on the web
(http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4858 for example), this seems to be a
known problem and the solution apparently is to add the following code to the
reference.cs

protected override WebRequest GetWebRequest(Uri uri)
       {
           HttpWebRequest webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)
base.GetWebRequest(uri);
           webRequest.KeepAlive = true;
           return webRequest;
       }

I have converted this to vb as follows:

       Protected Overrides Function GetWebRequest(ByVal Uri As Uri) As
WebRequest

           Dim webRequest As HttpWebRequest =
CType(MyBase.GetWebRequest(Uri), HttpWebRequest)

           webRequest.KeepAlive = True
           Return webRequest

       End Function

An import of  system.net is also required.

I put this in the reference.vb file accessible from the web references
section of a  dll which runs on the client.

Unfortunately this doesn’t have any effect and I am wondering what to do now.

Please could someone give me some suggestions.

Steve Bugden.