Question : How do I send an XML request to a 3rd party from a webpage and recieve the response?

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I've been at this problem for weeks please help!

I'm developing a small site for a recruitment company that has their data on a third parties server. I need to send an xml string to http://ww1.caliber.ie/cram/api and receive the XML response. I believe I need a proxy but I'm not sure. I've been reading and reading e-books/forums and articles on this AJAX but get nowhere. I thought http://www.codeproject.com/KB/ajax/ajaxproxy.aspx was the solution but I can't fully understand/get the RegularProxy to work with the xmlhttp.open('POST', 'RegularProxy.ashx?url=' + url, true); I have.

Can anyone please help. I'm at my wits end.
Thanks
Denis

Answer : How do I send an XML request to a 3rd party from a webpage and recieve the response?

I got some help on the ASP.Net forums. The working code is below. Thanks experts for your input

                       
         
           
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             Default.aspx:
 
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true"  CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>
 
"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 

"server">
    Untitled Page
 
    "form1" runat="server">
    
"Button1" runat="server" Text="Run" onclick="Button1_Click" />
"TextBox1" runat="server" Height="400px" Width="600px">
 
    
Default.aspx.cs:
 
using System;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
 
public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page 
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
 
    }
    protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        string xml = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>*GUESTguestsearchJobs100Open";
        string url = "http://ww1.caliber.ie/cram/api";
        HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
 
        //string s = "id="+Server.UrlEncode(xml);
        byte[] requestBytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(xml);
        req.Method = "POST";
        req.ContentType = "text/xml;charset=utf-8";
        req.ContentLength = requestBytes.Length;
        Stream requestStream = req.GetRequestStream();
        requestStream.Write(requestBytes, 0, requestBytes.Length);
        requestStream.Close();
 
        HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();
        StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(res.GetResponseStream(), System.Text.Encoding.Default);
        string backstr = sr.ReadToEnd();
        TextBox1.Text = backstr;
        sr.Close();
        res.Close();
    }
}

           
         

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