We have solved this problem.  If you add the same web service, but give it a
different name it works!  We cannot find any reference to the original name
causing the problem and given how long I've been on this issue, we're just
going to live with never being able to add a web reference, using the
original name, to this project.

Thanks

David

"David" wrote:
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> Apologies but could you shed any light on the following:-
>
> although I'm receiving the error message, described in my original message
,
> when I'm running the site from visual studio, we receive a different error
> message when browsing to a development or authoring server (same page
> obviously).
>
> The other error message:-
>
> Server responded with: System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection
> was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly. at
> System.Web.Services.Protocols.WebClientProtocol.GetWebResponse(WebRequest
> request)
>
> Investigations into the ISA server have been paused until I can explain th
e
> different messages.
>
> Thanks
> "Stefan GoƟner [MSFT]" wrote:
> 

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