HTTP Post to Web Service?

hi All,

we need to expose a web service to the 3rd party vendor which can only call using POST protocol, NOT SOAP.

So my question, is it better to build a web service or just simply .aspx page?

Also is there any best practice documentation on this.

Thanks.

Helllo;

I have been strugleing with this for more than a week, and have not been able to get any further ahead. I need to create a Webservice that can recive an HTTP Post with an XML document as the body or payload. It will be comeing from a PHP site, and I need to access it in ASP.Net.

I can create a webservice and test it out correctly with no real hitch, but when testing with my  third partys test page I am not getting the proper responce. The third party company can not provide me with much help since they do not know ASP.

The following is a sample code peice that can open a string of XML passed, and I have a form that can post to this test page.

public XmlDocument ProcessXML(String SourceXML)
{
XmlDocument NewSourceXML = new XmlDocument();
NewSourceXML.LoadXml(SourceXML);

.....

}

I knoiw that once I can read the posted XML I can break it down and do what I need to do with it, but I am having issues reciving the XML at this point.

My third party provided me with a basic excert from a PHP file.

/*
 *  Get the HTTP request (body) and parse into an XML document
*/
$data = file_get_contents("php://input");
$xmlstr = trim( stripslashes( $data ) );
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr);

But this is of no help to me. I need to

I am working on a application which will accept the data in the post request. My application also wants to expose a web service and want to call another web service. Considering all these 3 action that I want to do, can I create a single application which will have a web form which will accept the POST request and expose a web service at the same time.

Although it may be possible to achieve this, Is this a correct way of doing it?

Hi, 

Im new to ASP.NET MVC 2.

Im trying to call a controller method using Jquery $.ajax().

---- inside Controllers/ServiceController

public string GetString()

{

        return "My First MVC Ajax Testing";

}

---- javascript code calling the controller method

    var serviceUrl = '~/Controllers/ServiceController/GetString';

    var jsonData = '';

    $.ajax({

        url: serviceUrl,

        type: 'POST',

        data: JSON.stringify(jsonData),

        dataType: 'json',

        beforeSend: function (XMLHttpRequest) {

            onBeforeSend(XMLHttpRequest);

        },

        success: function (data, textStatus, XMLHttpRequest) {

            onSuccess(data, textStatus, XMLHttpRequest);

        },

        error: function (XMLHttpRequest, textStatus) {

            on