Question

I want to create a simple service so that other applications can poll a url, for instance

http://IP/serverstatus.aspx

And get status in a single line, no “html”. But how do I output that, Im currently reading a file in the file’s c# code just fine, and its the contents on this file that is going to be outputted.

Answer 1

• Set the ContentType
• Clear the Response (I think this is optional)
• Write to the Response
• Make sure your ASPX-file is empty

Like this:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Response.ContentType = "text/plain";
    Response.Clear();
    Response.WriteFile(Server.MapPath("yourfile.txt"));
}