sending and receiving data to a CGI page from ASP .net webservice

Question

How can I send data from my .net web service to a CGI page and collect response?

It is an integration project. One side (Client A) is collecting service requests in windows application + Sql server. another side (Client B) provides the services however they can accept the request from a cgi url http://mysite.com/cgi-bin/process.cgi (fake url).

Now I have to write a bridge (.net web service), which get initiated from windows app and submits data to the CGI url.

I am a novice web technician, detailed explanation is much appreciated.

e.g. In an HTML page I can do like specified below

<form method="post" action="https://mysite.com/cgi-bin/process.cgi"&gt;
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="sale">
<input type="hidden" name="acctid" value="TEST0">
<input type="hidden" name="name" value="Customer">
<input type="hidden" name="phnum" value="5454545454545454">
<input type="submit">
</form>

How to do it in .net Web Service. Thanks

Answer 1

CGI is just an HTTP server extension. It solely depends on the server configuration which CGI to use for given request. So you can not directly call CGI - you call a HTTP server and server only then transmits a call to CGI and sets environment variables needed to complete request by CGI extension.