web-services

Can I return JSON from an .asmx Web Service if the ContentType is not JSON?

I would like to post a form using ajax and jquery to a .asmx webservice and return the value from the webservice as JSON. I'm using ASP.NET 4.0. I know that in order to return JSON from a webservice the following needs to be set (1) dataType: "json" (2) contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8", (3) type: "POST" (4) set the Data t...

Returning a value from a function after an elapsed amount of time?

I have a web service in ASP.NET being called by a time-sensitive process. If the web service takes longer than N seconds to run I want to return from the call so the time sensitive operation can continue. Is this possible and if so what is the code for this? ...

Change Address/Port of WSDL EndPointAddress at runtime?

So I currently have 2 WSDLs added as Service References in my solution. They look like this in my app.config file (I removed the "bindings" field, because it's uninteresting): <system.serviceModel> <client> <endpoint address="http://localhost:8080/query-service/jse" binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="QueryBinding" co...

What type of web service should I put together?

I want to write a web service using Visual Studio. The service needs to support some type of authentication, and should be able to receive commands via simple HTTP GET requests. The input would only be a method call with some parameters, and the responses will be simple status/error codes. My instinct would be to go with an ASP.NET Web S...

Security and authentication in web services

Lets say we have a website that uses a web service for all of its functionality (i.e. retrieving and updating data from/to db), how does the web service authenticate requests? As I understand it, in a traditional java "website" a user provides a username & password, and upon validation a jsessionid is assigned to the user (client brows...

REST/JSON: Should I include a newline after the JSON string?

If I'm returning ["foo"] from a RESTful web query, Which of these is more proper? Will pedantic REST parsing die on the newline? ["foo"]\n (with newline, Content-Length=8) ["foo"] (no newline, Content-Length=7) For easy regression testing I like the form with the newline, but I want to make sure I won't be breaking any appl...

Apache Axis not taking "final" parameters for webmethods?

I tried java2wsdl a Webservice with Apache Axis 1.3/1.4 and implemented my Webmethod with final parameters like this: public boolean myWebMethod(final String p1, final String p2, final String p3) { ... } When I tested the webservice with the build-in Webservice Test Explorer in my IBM RAD I always got an exception. I tracked it do...

WCF: limit number of calls per hour - per user

Hi guys, I've got a WCF service (basicHttpBinding, basic authentication, IIS 6.0) on which I want to restrict the number of calls per hour - on user basis. For example, max 1000 calls per user, per hour (a la Google Maps, etc). I also want to implement some sort of subscription mechanism, so that users can upgrade their call-limit ac...

Get license file from a folder in C# project

I have a license file that I need to access at runtime in order to create pdf-files. After I have created the in memory pdf, I need to call a method on that pdf to set the license, like this: pdf.SetLicense("pathToLicenseFileHere"); The license file is located in the same project as the.cs-file that creates the pdf, but is in a separa...

Reading web-service information from assembly app.config file

I have a plugin architecture solution written in .NET C# 3.5, where each plug-in is an assembly loaded by the main project. Each plug-in can optionally consume web-service, so I would like to have the configuration of that plugin in its own plugin.dll.config file instead of having it in the app.config of the main project. I have been...

Help with NuSoap - Creation of web service

I have been helplessly trying to create a web service in PHP using NuSoap for the past 2 days. However, after endlessly sifting through various tutorials and guides, i am still stuck with 10 lines of code that refuse to work. Server : // Pull in the NuSOAP code require_once('./lib/nusoap.php'); // Create the server instance $server = ...

Expose webservice directly to webclients or keep a thin server-side script layer in between?

Hi, I'm developing a REST webservice (Java, Jersey). The people I'm doing this for want to directly access the webservice via Javascript. Some instinct tells me this is not a good idea, but I cannot really explain that instinct. My natural approach would have been to have the webservice do the real logic and database access, but also ha...

How to get Content types

Hi, I'm developing a windows application, that talks to SharePoint via its built in web services, and i want to get all content types available on a SharePoint site, I'm trying to use Web.Webs WebsService = new Web.Webs(); WebsService.Credentials=credentials; WebsService.Url="url of the web service"; XmlNode listOfContentTypes = Webs...

References from C# Class project not being included in .dll output

I need to expose a third party vendor's web service internally on my network. The reason for this is the third party web service requires some custom header information which means it cannot be called from SSRS. Here is what I have done: Took the WSDL files from the vendor (only available offline) and created .dll files (we will call...

calling a java webservice from html page and javascript

Hey guys, I'm trying to call a java implemented web service (using the NetBeans IDE) from javascript. I have read a lot about jQuery and AJAX but i cant seem to get a hand on it. suppose my web service WSDL is found at: http://localhost:8080/MICE_Server/MapEditorService?WSDL web method name : sayHello(String name) which returns a stri...

GnuPG + Webservice + ASP.NET

Hi! I'm exhausted. I have installed GnuPG and exported secret key, and two public keys (my own and one of my client) from another instance of GnuPG. I try to configure 'my encrypting/decrypting' method on the local machine. When I run encrypting method from a little console application it works good. When I run this (same! - with the s...

Consume WCF service from Coldfusion 7

I am trying to figure out a way to consume a WCF service I have (wsdl) from Coldfusion. I need to pass values in the request header. I can't seem to find any good examples anywhere. Anyone? ...

Securing a REST API

I am in the middle of developing a PHP social media web application which will be supported by various web services each operating a REST API. Web services will probably be implemented in Java with MySQL data layer but the whole point of what I am trying to do is make it really easy to implement modules in different languages/data stores...

Best approach to design a service oriented system

Thinking about service orientation, our team are involved on new application designs. We consist in a group of 4 developers and a manager (that knows something about programming and distributed systems). Each one, having own opinion on service design. It consists in a distributed system: a user interface (web app) accessing the services...

Unable to output formatted HTML from Jquery with html DataType

I am calling some data which has pre-formatted HTML code in it, but when it renders from the jquery it appears to ignore my markup. This is my jQuery: function GetFeed(){ document.getElementById("marq").innerHTML = ''; $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "xmlproxy.ashx", dataType: "html", success: function(obj) { ...