9.2. Making WebRequest Calls

The WebRequest class is the central object used for managing HTTP requests in ASP.NET AJAX. It provides a cross-browser compatible object for using the different underlying XMLHttpRequest implementations. Listing 9-3 (CallTimeWebRequest.aspx) is a Web page that does the equivalent of the request and response processing shown in Listing 9-2.

Example 9-3. CallTimeWebRequest.aspx
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Networking</title>
<script type="text/javascript">

var xmlhttp;

function pageLoad() {
var  Request = new Sys.Net.WebRequest();
    webRequest.set_url("Time.aspx");

    webRequest.add_completed(completedHandler);
    webRequest.invoke();
}

function completedHandler(result, eventArgs) {
    if(result.get_responseAvailable()) {
        alert(result.get_statusText());
        alert(result.get_responseData());
    }
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <asp:ScriptManager runat="server" ID="ScriptManager1">
    </asp:ScriptManager>
    <div>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

First, note that the code creates a Sys.Net.WebRequest object directly. You do not have to bother with checking the browser compatibility. You set the service address, add a completed callback function, and invoke the request. In the callback function, there is no need to check different integers against the status codes they represent. Instead, ...

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