ContentType of a WebService

This is just a guess, but you could try something like:

(in your webservice class)

MyBase.Context.Response.ContentType = "text/xml"

I have tried adding the following in my [WebMethod]

HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = "text/xml";

and this did not work. I even tried:

this.Content.Response.ContentType = "text/xml";

and that didn't work either.

My guess is that the WebService class is setting the HTTP Content-Type field once the [WebMethod] returns. So, I am thinking that I need to configure the WebService some how? I am not sure how to do this?

Try to use following in your web page..

....
<%@ Page Language="C#" ContentType="text/xml" %>
....

Siddhartha

I don't have a webpage per say. I access the WebService directly. For instance, I use the following URL:

http://SERVER_IP/TestWebService.asmx/TestMethod

This produces the XML. Without going into too much detail, The TestMethod method would acctually be doing some DB operations. Then it would result in XML. However, the HTTP Context-Type is "text/xml; charset=utf-8" and I only want "text/xml'. Therefore, I can't use any ASP.NET as I do not use an *.aspx front-end.

So, I am looking for a way to configure the HTTP Content-Type the TestWebService.asmx returns. Perhaps it is some magical setting in Web.Config or something? I mean, what is generating the XML when the 'return' statement is executed in TestMethod??

When I look at the WSDL for the WebService it describes what the HTTP-GET returns.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rootTag xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
  <field1>string</field1>
  <subfield1>
    <field2>string</field2>
  </subfield1>
  <subfield2>
    <field2>string</field2>
  </subfield>
</rootTag>

Now, it looks like the something is generating the XML outside of the WebMethod "Test3". So, I think that any configuration inside the method gets over-written. Anyone know what this is?

I think I am a little closer to a solution. What I did was create the following ASP.NET page with the following Page_Load method:

                 private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
      {
            Response.Buffer = true;
            Response.ClearContent();
            Response.ClearHeaders();
            Response.ContentEncoding = new MyEncoding();
            Response.ContentType = "text/xml";


            Response.Write("<rootTag>");
            Response.Write("<Title>From ASPX</Title>");
            Response.Write("<Menu><Name>Google Canada</Name>");
            Response.Write("<URL>http://www.google.ca</URL></MenuItem>");
            Response.Write("</rootTag >");
      }

The MyEncoding class inherits from UTF8Encoding. The only method overriden is the WebName method. It returns the empty string.

The resulting HTTP Content-Type field is now: "text/xml".

Now I am trying to get the XML produced from my WebMethod and return that from my ASP.NET page. However, my WebMethod returns an object and not the XML.

How do I capture the XML produced from a WebMethod?

How do I get the XML produced by a WebMethod from inside a ASP.NET page.

ASP.NET:

WebService 1 s = new WebService1();

Response.Write(s.MyWebMethod()); // ?????????????

OR

How do I change the Encoding returned by an HTTP-GET from the WebService?