Web Service Inspecting Return XML

[bustell]

With a Web service, is there a way to inspect the XML that is being returned to the client?



Pat B

 

[dinger2121]

You can use HttpWebRequest to retrieve the stream and the feed it into a datastream. From there you can parse it however you would like.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest.aspx

carl
MCSD, MCTS:MOSS

 

[bustell]

I'm sorry but I'm not seeing how I can reference this in my Web service to get access to the XML that the Web service code is about to return to the client.

I would like to be able to capture that XML before it is returned for debugging purposes.

Thank you,


Pat B

 

[dinger2121]

I'm not sure what you mean. When you use the HttpWebRequest, you are retrieving the xml. When you put it into a datastream, that is the exact xml that was returned in the response.

carl
MCSD, MCTS:MOSS

 

[bustell]

Are you referring to using the HttpWebRequest via the client? If so, that's not what I am looking for.

I want to capture the return XML from the Web method before it is returned to the client. From within the Web method code, I do not see how I can access the HttpWebRequest object. Even if I could, from the code within the Web method, I'm interested in XML response from the Web method being sent to the client.


Pat B