Hi,
 
I want to send an HTTP Request to a web page from within a windows service.
 
Will appreciate any help on how this can be done.
 
Thanks

 

Terrence J. Joubert

Software Engineer

VCS, PO BOX 1000

Victoria, Mahe

 

 

Put that code where you want to make Http requests
'###############END 
        Dim oRequest As Net.HttpWebRequest
        Dim oResponse As Net.HttpWebResponse
        Dim strUrl as string = "http://www.wrox.com/"

        'SET NEW REQUEST OBJECT
        oRequest = Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(strUrl)
        'DISABLE USE OF AUTO-REDIRECT, IF A REDIRECT IS RESPONNED, YOU 
WILL GET HTML DATA
        oRequest.AllowAutoRedirect = False
        'SET THE METHOD, GET|POST
        oRequest.Method = "GET"

        'IF YOU WANT TO USE POST, USE THIS BLOCK OF CODE
         If oRequest.Method = "POST" Then
         oRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
         Dim myWriter As New System.IO.StreamWriter
(oRequest.GetRequestStream())
         myWriter.Write("DATATOPOST")
         myWriter.Close()
        End If

        'EXECUTE THE REQUEST AND PUT IT ON RESPONSE OBJECT
        oResponse = oRequest.GetResponse()

        'READ THE RESPONSE INTO A STREAM AND CONVERT IT INTO STRING
        Dim oStm As New System.IO.StreamReader(oResponse.GetResponseStream)

        Dim strResponse as string = oStm.ReadToEnd()
'###############END 
Jonathan

> Hi,
 
I want to send an HTTP Request to a web page from within a windows service.
 
Will appreciate any help on how this can be done.
 
Thanks

 

Terrence J. Joubert

Software Engineer

VCS, PO BOX 1000

Victoria, Mahe