returning a string back after a HTTP Post

[arfeengodil]

Hi,

I need to have a web application such that other applications should be
able to do send data to it using HTTP Post.
So I created a ASP.NET web service and defined a web method for other
people to POST data to. But the string returned back to the person who
sent the POST message is embedded in XML Tags.

for example
http://mydomain.com/webserver.asmx/S...arameter=Hello World

returns the string as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<string xmlns="http://mydomain.com/">RETURN STRING</string>

But what I want to do is get only the string "Return String" as a
response back from the webserver instead of all the extra xml tags.

I'm not really fimiliar with ASP.NET and therefore do not know which
direction to go to right now.

Thanks
Arfeen

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Arfeen,

Web services imply that you are going to send XML as part of a POST or
GET (usually a POST) and get a response in XML as well, both of which are
usually converted to a local type representation.

If you want to use web services for this, then you need to have your
clients set web references to the web service, and then make the calls to
the web method. It will handle taking the XML and then extracting the
string from it and returning that to you.

However, if you simply want to allow a POST request and then return a
string which isn't wrapped in XML (and will require some manual processing),
then web services is not what you want. Rather, just create a regular
ASP.NET page, and return the response (you might want to change the content
type to text/plain) as a string.

Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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Hi,

I need to have a web application such that other applications should be
able to do send data to it using HTTP Post.
So I created a ASP.NET web service and defined a web method for other
people to POST data to. But the string returned back to the person who
sent the POST message is embedded in XML Tags.

for example
http://mydomain.com/webserver.asmx/S...arameter=Hello World

returns the string as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<string xmlns="http://mydomain.com/">RETURN STRING</string>

But what I want to do is get only the string "Return String" as a
response back from the webserver instead of all the extra xml tags.

I'm not really fimiliar with ASP.NET and therefore do not know which
direction to go to right now.

Thanks
Arfeen