Accessing the request object within a web service? 1

[millerk]

I'm new to web services, but I've got a basic web service with one web method working. With a regular aspx page, you have access to the Request object and can read whatever you need from it. Is there an equivalent to this for web services? I'd like to be able to access the soap request from within my web method.

Thanks

 

[vbkris]

hi,

this should help:

<WebMethod()> _
Public Function HelloWorld(ByVal theVal As String) As String
Dim myStream As Stream
myStream = HttpContext.Current.Request.InputStream
Dim myStreamReader As New StreamReader(myStream)
myStream.Position = 0
Return myStreamReader.ReadToEnd
End Function

that returns the entire XML for me...

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[millerk]

Thanks.

 

[vbkris]

welcome...

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[millerk]

This may be obvious to some, but in case anyone else tries this, one thing that threw me off at first is that if you are testing this by navigating directly to the .asmx page (or clicking start in VS), then the Request will be empty. So when I first tried it, I thought it wasn't working. But when I used my test page that calls the web service, it works perfectly.