Help - how could I get web response after submitting programmatically?

[Jackal]

I have a form page(abc.aspx) that contains some fields need to be filled in
before submitting,
and the action of the form is "def.aspx". After peocessing the filled-in
data, it'll return the result.
Is there any chance I could get the result by programming?

[Original Process]
Fill in data on "abc.aspx" --> Submit --> "def.aspx" requests the data -->
Processing --> Returns the result to "abc.aspx"

[Desired Process]
Send WebRequest to "def.aspx"(e.g.
WebRequest.Create("http://server/def.aspx?Type=AUTH&OrderNo=0001"))
--> Processing --> Returns the result to "abc.aspx"

Any idea?

Any suggestion is appreciated

 

[Eric Lawrence [MSFT]]

Is there something wrong with the approach you've described as "Desired"?
There shouldn't be anything stopping you from making a webservice request
from one page to another.

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Thanks,

Eric Lawrence
Program Manager
Assistance and Worldwide Services

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[Tommy]

You cannot use the WebRequest class on the client-side unless the user
has the .NET framework installed on their machine.

Instead, you can use web service behavior. It allows you to use
javascript to make a web service request and retrieve the results
without reloading the page.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndude/html/dude01222001.asp

I think the web service behavior can create a much better user
experierence, and some very powerful web pages, but it can also make
it very difficult to maintain the code because you are using quite a
bit of javascript to pack the data, send it to a web server, unpack
the return data, and map it to the screen controls. Additionally, it
has a security risk because you are moving more processing to the
client-side where you have much less control.

This approach will work very nice for a simple web application, but if
you have a complex web application that has over a hundred webforms,
then this approach might not work very well. It is much harder to
debug javascript errors, and this will increase the cost to maintain
your code.

Tommy,