How to use HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse to create a webservice and how will the request and responses will be send across the wire?
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this is the syntax for using HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse
WebRequest _request;
string text;
string url = "UrlToGet";
_request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
using (WebResponse response = _request.GetResponse())
{
using (StreamReader reader =new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
{
text = reader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse are intended for client applications to make HTTP requests and read HTTP responses. You can't use them to create a server application.
If you want to create and consume SOAP web services using .NET then you need to learn WCF:
WCF is a complex topic but Microsoft still support the legacy "ASP.NET Web Services" technology which might be easier to get a handle on to begin with:
In particular:
