Proxy Authentication / Configuration for Web API and Skills

[AlexanderFische]

Web API and Skills are offering an easy and fast way to use external Webservices.
Unfortunately this is not possible if you need a proxy authentication and therefore you'll get message like
Internal : Unexpected error Error during Web API HTTP Request
HTTP Status Code: 407
HTTP Response Content: <HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>Access Denied</TITLE>

There is a workaround of using HTTP and REST VBOs instead of Web API, which will allow to set Proxy for a request, but this means that you can't use Web API and Skills here. This will a mean lot of more efforts in implementation of many use cases.

So in our opinion it would be a very good feature to have such an option also für Web API and within Skills.
 
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[matt.digby]

Just came across this. This would be very helpful, I imagine a lot of Blue Prism customers (medium/large/enterprise business) would have an internet proxy, most likely authenticated so it seems like it would be a fairly common need.

Hope this can be implemented soon!

[Amy_T]

Hi Alexander, 

Thank you for your idea. I've updated the status to Under Consideration and you will see updates here as it progresses through the process.

Best Regards,

Amy

[Otto_Mation]

This idea has been updated by the SS&C Blue Prism Product Management Team

[greggoodrem]

Is this still under consideration as I know we all do the work around once we find out the use of proxy in Web API services isn't viable and also manually setting up the bot locally with a proxy doen't always work. I imagine it would be quite an easy change compaired to some of the other features people ask for.