No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it?

Question

Sometimes I get the following error while I was doing HttpWebRequest to a WebService. I copied my code below too.

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System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect         


        

Answer 1

In my case this was caused by a faulty deployment where a setting in my web.config was not made.

A collegue explained that the IP address in the error message represents the localhost.

When I corrected the web.config I was then using the correct url to make the server calls and it worked.

I thought I would post this in case it might help someone.