How do you access a RESTful web service? That depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you just want to test connectivity, a terminal-based utility like curl is a great RESTful web service ...

I've got a third party web service method that I'm calling from a .NET 3.5 application. The method is a password change request where you pass in your old password and are assigned a random new one ...

Editor's Note: This web services development tutorial was published in 2001, and remains a very popular article on TheServerSide. This article still provides great value, but significant changes have ...

Web services standardize the format (XML) and the protocol (SOAP) for application-to-application communication. Such standardization spurs software vendors to create quality applications with focused ...

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In this configuration, all host application requests flow through the same transaction server web service, request and response data flows as a single variable length character string, and all host ...

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Researcher warns that many .NET applications might be vulnerable to arbitrary file writes because .NET’s HTTP client proxy ...