HttpClient socket exception - sockets

Question

I am trying to call some external API hosted on azure from my web Api. The API is working fine on my local machine but when I deploy it IIS on server it starts throwing System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (10060).A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. Although I have increased the request timeout to 5 minutes but connection is silently stopping after 21 seconds and throwing aforementioned exception.
Here is my code:
var telemetries = new TelemetryResponse();
var client = httpClientFactory.CreateClient("Lynx");
client.Timeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5);
var httpResponseMessage = await client.GetAsync("vehicletelemetries/All?key=iLJIbAVXOnpKz5xyF0zV44yepu5OVfmZFhkHM7x");
if (httpResponseMessage.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
string content = await httpResponseMessage.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
telemetries = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<TelemetryResponse>(content);
}
Exception I am getting is:
System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (10060): A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.AwaitableSocketAsyncEventArgs.ThrowException(SocketError error, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.AwaitableSocketAsyncEventArgs.System.Threading.Tasks.Sources.IValueTaskSource.GetResult(Int16 token)
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.g__WaitForConnectWithCancellation|277_0(AwaitableSocketAsyncEventArgs saea, ValueTask connectTask, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
at System.Net.Http.HttpConnectionPool.ConnectToTcpHostAsync(String host, Int32 port, HttpRequestMessage initialRequest, Boolean async, CancellationToken cancellationToken)

Answer 1

You got an error code:
WSAETIMEDOUT
10060
Connection timed out.
A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or the established connection failed because the connected host has failed to respond.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winsock/windows-sockets-error-codes-2#WSAETIMEDOUT
Check your network connection, ip adress, port and maybe the connection got blocked from a firewall.

Answer 2

Hi guys the culprit was the proxy and we have to configure our HttpClient with proxy while creating it/registering in the DI container. I have registered the HttpClient in DI like this.
var proxySettings = new ProxySetting();
Configuration.Bind(nameof(ProxySetting), proxySettings);
services.AddHttpClient("Lynx", client =>
{
client.BaseAddress = new Uri(Configuration.GetSection("LynxUrl").Value);
}).ConfigurePrimaryHttpMessageHandler(() => new HttpClientHandler { Proxy = new MyProxy(proxySettings)});
And my proxy code is
public class MyProxy : IWebProxy
{
private readonly ProxySetting _proxySetting;
public MyProxy(ProxySetting proxySetting)
{
_proxySetting = proxySetting;
}
public ICredentials Credentials
{
//get { return new NetworkCredential("username", "password"); }
get { return new NetworkCredential(_proxySetting.UserName, _proxySetting.Password,_proxySetting.Domain); }
set { }
}
public Uri GetProxy(Uri destination)
{
return new Uri(_proxySetting.ProxyUrl);
}
public bool IsBypassed(Uri host)
{
return false;
}
}
It has resolved my problem completely.