Sorry, I was a bit confusing. The web service will be called to automatically submit a form via POST. It's the function of the WS to submit the form.
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Browse All TopicsHow do I programmatically submit a form via POST in VB.Net? I'd like to submit all types of fields (radio, checkbox, text box, text area, hidden, etc.). This is for a web service.
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Any form, really. Say I wanted to create a web service that would log me in an email provider (say, Hotmail) and return the list of contacts. So, the web service would accept username and password as the parameters, submit it to Hotmail, get the contacts, then return that as the response.
Is this bad engineering? Are web services not supposed to do something like this?
BTW, I know how to do SOAP WS in .Net 2008. Can I do REST, too?
My friend, you must remember that this is not my job, and I provide answers when I can. I don't sit at my computer 24 hours a day, plus you need to remember that I have my own problems to solve.
1) Web services can do pretty much anything you want, but are not always the "best" choice. That really depends on network configurations, and whether you are crossing network boundaries with firewalls, proxies, etc.
2) This doesn't sound like "bad engineering" on the surface.
3) You might be able to use an System.Net.HttpWebRequest or a System.Net.WebClient to get that information.
Sorry, I digress:
Posting form data from ASP.NET page to another URL
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by: TheLearnedOnePosted on 2008-08-15 at 13:34:30ID: 22241564
I would like to find out why you need a POST to access a web service, instead of creating an instance of a web service proxy class, and calling a web method?