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Response.redirect to a url within web service method leads to HTTP 500 - Internal server error

Hi,

I have a simple web service that redirects the response to a web page.

[WebMethod]
public string HelloWorld()
{
this.Context.Response.Redirect ("http://www.hp.com", true);
return "hello world";
}

But invoking the method gives me a

HTTP 500 - Internal server error
Internet Explorer

What am I doing wrong?

THANKS!
Andrew

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Type25

You might want to look at WebRequest to return the website.

andrewting

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Thanks for the comments. You are right. I thought about it a little more and redirecting to a web page in a web site is a little weird.

I have a web site that we built, but I now need to be able to preload information into the web site by a third-party application using a web service. I need to be able to

1. Programmatically log into the website (the website uses forms authentication) and load an XML file into the website via a web service.

This should be easy a simple web service that says (and secured using SSL) should work.
eg. LoadXML (string userName, string password, string XML)

2. Start up the website in a browser (already logged in for the user) and goto an aspx page that presents the loaded information to the user.

This is a little more confusing, how do I programmatically log a user in? At first I thought of having a web service like above, and once the credentials are authenticated, I would redirect the user to the website page using the session information. But this doesn't seem to be the right approach...

I don't want to encode the username/password in the URL in plain text....Can anyone help me with this?

THANKS!
Andrew

andrewting

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I couldn't figure out how to change the title of my question. I was worried that no one would respond.

Here is the new link.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21378882/How-to-programatically-log-into-a-forms-authenticated-website.html