How to receive/send XML file through HTTP Post?

[John Dow]

I am trying to receive/send xml files with predefined schema from/to another
server using http post, and a success message back to the sender
Would someone give me a start point where I can start to design the piece?
Is webservice the best practise to use? Could someone give a code sample or
point me a resource on the web?
Thanks you very much!

[Mads Bondo Dydensborg]

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>I have been struggling with this issue myself for some time now.
Originally I was under the impression that I needed to use remoting
for this.

Remoting is for interprocess communication - not for sending HTTP posts.

I am getting closer and closer to that understanding :-)

You could device an HTTP interprocess communications protocol, but you
might as well use standard remoting, WCF, or Web services. No need to
reinvent the wheel :-)

I totally agree. I ended up here, due to a lack of knowledge about the
framework. I _did_ ask in several newsgroups, but probably did not frame my
question in a sensible way.

If you're doing HTTP posts - I would just go with the WebClient/WebRequest
method. Much simplier.

So, you are suggesting another road than Arne?

Just to clarify: I am implementing the server, not the client. I do not care
about the client actually, but do have to support a fixed format on the
wire. WebRequest looks very much client like?

Regards,

Mads

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Mads Bondo Dydensborg <mb*@dbc.dkwrote in
news:ui**************@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

>If you're doing HTTP posts - I would just go with the
WebClient/WebRequest method. Much simplier.

So, you are suggesting another road than Arne?

Just to clarify: I am implementing the server, not the client. I do
not care about the client actually, but do have to support a fixed
format on the wire. WebRequest looks very much client like?

OH - if you're the server just use ASP.NET!

ASP.NET (or even classic ASP...) can receive form posts **very** easily.

[Mads Bondo Dydensborg]

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Mads Bondo Dydensborg <mb*@dbc.dkwrote in
news:ui**************@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

>>If you're doing HTTP posts - I would just go with the
WebClient/WebRequest method. Much simplier.

So, you are suggesting another road than Arne?

Just to clarify: I am implementing the server, not the client. I do
not care about the client actually, but do have to support a fixed
format on the wire. WebRequest looks very much client like?

OH - if you're the server just use ASP.NET!

ASP.NET (or even classic ASP...) can receive form posts **very** easily.

It is a requirement that this service may have to be run standalone, that
is, outside a web server. (It also needs to run under Linux/Mono). But, if
I ignore that issue, then that is the best solution, I imagine.

It wont be forms that are posted, btw, but that should not matter for this
discussion.

Thanks,

Mads

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Med venlig hilsen/Regards

Systemudvikler/Systemsdeveloper cand.scient.dat, Ph.d., Mads Bondo
Dydensborg
Dansk BiblioteksCenter A/S, Tempovej 7-11, 2750 Ballerup, Tlf. [phone]
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Mads Bondo Dydensborg <mb*@dbc.dkwrote in
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It is a requirement that this service may have to be run standalone,
that is, outside a web server. (It also needs to run under
Linux/Mono). But, if I ignore that issue, then that is the best
solution, I imagine.

How about PHP? PHP is cross-platform?

It wont be forms that are posted, btw, but that should not matter for
this discussion.

[Mads Bondo Dydensborg]

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Mads Bondo Dydensborg <mb*@dbc.dkwrote in
news:#B**************@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:

>It is a requirement that this service may have to be run standalone,
that is, outside a web server. (It also needs to run under
Linux/Mono). But, if I ignore that issue, then that is the best
solution, I imagine.

How about PHP? PHP is cross-platform?

Interessting thing. How should I then communicate from PHP with the C#
service?

Regards,

Mads

--
Med venlig hilsen/Regards

Systemudvikler/Systemsdeveloper cand.scient.dat, Ph.d., Mads Bondo
Dydensborg
Dansk BiblioteksCenter A/S, Tempovej 7-11, 2750 Ballerup, Tlf. [phone]
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Mads Bondo Dydensborg <mb*@dbc.dkwrote in news:uIHQ3sLDIHA.2004
@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

Interessting thing. How should I then communicate from PHP with the C#
service?

Easiest method would be to dump a record into a database, which your
service will pickup and process. Not exactly fancy, but it should work.

However, if you were entirely on .NET (i.e. ASP.NET) you could have
connected directly with the service via remoting or WCF and talked to the
service using a network communications channel.

[Ralfeus]

I just passed whole XML content as a parameter to the Web Service. It
looked like this:
FileStream fs = new FileStream(fileToSend, FileMode.Open,
FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read);
BinaryReader reader = new BinaryReader(fs);
char[] data = new char[fs.Length];
reader.Read(data, 0, data.Length);
WebService.SendData(settings["PDAID"], new string(data));

Originally the Web Service was hosted on the ASP.NET, but later was
migrated to PHP. Client part was not changed.

On Oct 9, 7:13 am, "John Dow" <[e-mail]:

I am trying to receive/send xml files with predefined schema from/to another
server using http post, and a success message back to the sender
Would someone give me a start point where I can start to design the piece?
Is webservice the best practise to use? Could someone give a code sample or
point me a resource on the web?
Thanks you very much!