Help!! Calling a different web site from a web service

I had the same problem maybe this could help // Initialize the WebRequest. WebRequest myRequest = WebRequest.Create("http://www.nba.com"); // Return the response. WebResponse myResponse = myRequest.GetResponse(); // Code to use the WebResponse goes here. // Obtain a 'Stream' object associated with the response object. Stream ReceiveStream = myResponse.GetResponseStream(); Encoding encode = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("utf-8"); // Pipe the stream to a higher level stream reader with the required encoding format. StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader( ReceiveStream, encode ); richTextBox1.Text = "\nResponse stream received\r\n"; Char[] read = new Char[256]; // Read 256 charcters at a time. int count = readStream.Read( read, 0, 256 ); richTextBox1.Text = "HTML...\r\n"; while (count > 0) { // Dump the 256 characters on a string and display the string onto the console. String str = new String(read, 0, count); richTextBox1.Text += str; count = readStream.Read(read, 0, 256); } // Release the resources of stream object. readStream.Close(); // Release the resources of response object. myResponse.Close();

There's an interesting discussion on a WebClient class in the C# Language forum here, in a thread whose subject is "file download", posted by rdubey. Maybe this is better for what you're trying to to...

The data that is returned is just a stright chuck of text.

It would help to know what sort of data is returned by the other http service. If it's just a straight chunk of text or HTML, you could use sockets and parse the output. A socket client is (effectively) a TELNET client, an it can call the HTTP server and ask for the file you're trying to get. You can find the HTTP 1.0 standard in RFC 1945 and the HTTP/1.1 spec in RFC 2068. These are splattered all over the web and are easy to find. It's pretty easy, though. Depending on the URL (say it's http://www.mydomain.com/directory1/document1), you can probably just connect to www.mydomain.com on port 80 with the client socket, send the text "GET directory1/document1" and the HTML response will be manifest unto you. Don't take my word for it, though, as I'm pretty new to .NET. There may be a better way, such as an httpclient object somewhere, or maybe a third-party assembly. If it's an XML web service, you can very well have a SOAP client built into your webservice.