How to respond to HTTP GET with .net and XML

Question

How to respond to HTTP GET with c#/.net and XML

What I am trying to is when another service call posts to a get with say 5 parameters. This service would respond with an appropriate xml file.

Is WCF the way to go? Any good examples out there?

Is this way easier/faster on some other platform?

Answer 1

One very easy option is to simply host an ASP.NET MVC web application ... you can have an action method that maps to the URL you are interested in which would take the parameters and return the XML:
http://asp.net/mvc

Answer 2

Pretty easy with .NET.

A good blog post on it here.

http://msmvps.com/blogs/omar/archive/2008/10/03/create-rest-api-using-asp-net-mvc-that-speaks-both-json-and-plain-xml.aspx

Answer 3

If you havve just one service method to support, then I'd say yes, use ASPNET: it's simple and easy.

If you are building a REST infrastructure and you want logging, multi-protocol capability, a variety of REST documents and verbs, and so on, then I'd recommend WCF.