Question

My web service calls a url which returns a value which I must capture and use in a different function.

I’ve only recently starting working with web services and am very new to the concept of calling a url within a web service (Previously asked and answered on this forum for those requiring more information)

Webservice method to call a url

My web service is: Insurance Service.

My client sends me data through the Insurance service which calls a url which returns an Insurance Number.

How do I capture this insurance number? I thought I could use session to capture it but I was so wrong insurance Number comes as null with an object reference error.

int insuranceNo;
insuranceNo = Convert.ToInt16(HttpContext.Current.Session["insuranceNo"]);

It must have something to do with response right?

I thought I could try google what I am looking for but I honestly don’t know what to call this in order to search for it. Thought I’d give it another shot in this forum since I found the answer to the first part of this function here.

code to call url:

 string url = string.Format("www.insuranceini.com/insurance.asp?fileno1={0},&txtfileno2={1‌​}&username={2}&userid={3}&dteinsured={4}&dteDob={5}&InsurerName={6}", txtfileno1, txtfileno2, username, userid, dteinsured,dteDob,InsurerName)
WebRequest request = HttpWebRequest.Create(url);
using(WebResponse response = request.GetResponse())
{
    using(StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
    {
        string urlText = reader.ReadToEnd();
        //Do whatever you need to do
    }
}

I would be grateful for any sort of pointers or places to start looking or any advice.

Answer 1

Code began giving different errors. Closing this and referring to : Datetime Conversion and Parsing

Thank you everyone for the helpful comments.