webservice response giving problem [modified]
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i created a simple webservice
_ Public Function HelloWorld(ByVal person As String) As String Return "Hello" + person End Functionandi created a vb.net application that i jus wanted to post the name and get back the response' Create the web request request = DirectCast(WebRequest.Create("http://localhost:80/WebService_RPC2"), HttpWebRequest) ' Set type to POST request.Method = "POST" request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" ' Create a byte array of the data we want to send byteData = System.Text.UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data.ToString()) ' Set the content length in the request headers request.ContentLength = data.Length ' Write data Try postStream = request.GetRequestStream() postStream.Write(byteData, 0, byteData.Length) Catch ex As Exception MessageBox.Show(ex.Message) Finally If Not postStream Is Nothing Then postStream.Close() End Try Try ' Get response response = DirectCast(request.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse) ' Get the response stream into a reader reader = New StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()) ' Console application output Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd()) Catch ex As Exception MessageBox.Show(ex.Message) Finally If Not response Is Nothing Then response.Close() End Try Dim responseString As String = Convert.ToString(reader)but this doesn't work when i debug the code i see that the request goes through and no exception is thrown as soon as i try to read the responseresponse = DirectCast(request.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)i get an exceptiong is thrown saying Quote: the remote server return an error405)Method Not allowed can anyone tell me what i am doing wrong is there something i am not doing correcly from the webservice side? -- modified at 23:53 Saturday 10th February, 2007