Question

In my ASP.NET MVC 3 application, I am trying to use an external search engine.

The search engine is used as following :

I execute a URL with the search parameters I want like this

http://<Domain>/engine/ContactssCore/select?q=QUERY

This will return an XML result, which I am going to parse into C# objects.

My question is, how can I call this URL and get the XML result from my controller ?

Answer 1

An XDocument can load direcly from an external source

var xml = XDocument.Load("http://<Domain>/engine/ContactssCore/select?q=QUERY");

You should probably encode your QUERY parameter before making the request.