here is the sitution, i am testing on my localhost from my machine at home (no proxy server and windows default firewall) and retrieving api.flickr.com xml file, when I come to work (that uses an ISA server to connect) I get "remote server could not be resolved" so I added these lines to the web.config
<system.net>
<defaultProxy>
<proxy
usesystemdefault="False"
proxyaddress="http://localhost"
bypassonlocal="True"
/>
<bypasslist>
<add address="[a-z]+\.flickr\.com\.+" />
</bypasslist>
</defaultProxy>
</system.net>
that returns:System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found. what went wrong? thanks