Receiving and returning XML data

[JBalcerzak]

Hello,

I need to receive XML data from an Http POST and then return XML data via the response. I had setup an ASP.NET page to parse the data and render the returned XML. It works fine on my test server, but when I get it out in the real world, I'm getting 500 errors in my test client.

I guess I've got 2 questions, first, is this really the best way of doing this (i.e. should this really be a web service?) and is there any way I can get more detailed information on the error so I can tell what's going wrong?

Thanks,
Jeff

 

[jmeckley]

the page object is designed to render a webpage. xml, is not a webpage, it's just data so a web service, or even an http handler would be a better choice.

fiddler for IE and firebug for FF are great tools for debugging http problems. 500 is a server error, so adding logging to the server code will go a long way to determining the problem.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
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[ca8msm]

xml, is not a webpage, it's just data so a web service, or even an http handler would be a better choice.

Not necessarily, we don't know if the XML in question is marked up as XHTML, in which case it could both be presented as a web page and/or used as data for use in an external system. I'd hazard a guess that it probably isn't being used in a web page, but from the info so far it hasn't been determined either way so a web page could be the correct implementation.

JBalcerzak, would you care to eleborate?

Mark,

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