Re: PHTML Web Service...how to call....new to me

Greg,

This is perhaps a REST interface, hence the need for a DTD (and not a WSDL),
etc. You might want to look at the REST extensions for WCF [1] or use an
alternate stack such as WebRequest, etc to do the POST.

Hope that helps

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/dd547388.aspx

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On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Greg <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> I am looking over web service documentation from a vendor we may start
> working with. I come from the .NET world (asmx and WCF), and prior to that
> the SOAP Tool Kit World, so to me web services are about WSDLs and friends.
>
> Their documentation states we will need to generate an XML request
> conforming to their DTD. Our "XML generator" posts this XML document to
> their XML Gateway.
>
> The gateway url looks something like this:
> https://www.thevendor.com/ia/xml/xmlgw.phtml.
>
> I have done some Googling on DTD, XML Gateway and phtml.
>
> When I try to add a service or web reference from VS 2008 I get this
> message:
>
> "The document at the url https://www.thevendor.com/ia/xml/xmlgw.phtml was
> not recognized as a known document type.
> The error message from each known type may help you fix the problem:
> - Report from 'DISCO Document' is 'Discovery document at the URL
> https://www.thevendor.com/ia/xml/xmlgw.phtml could not be found.
> The document format is not recognized."
>
> Question, from a .NET 3.5 application how would I create a proxy to this
> "gateway"? Or, do I need to "manually" construct an XML document and somehow
> post it to their Gateway and then parse out the response? I am not a web
> developer either so this is a little confusing to me.
>
> Thanks!
>
> 
>