Question

When a button/link is clicked, I want this URL to be called followed by the execution of the following statements.

The ASP.Net page is in C# btw.

Function A
   statement A
   call abc.apsx
   statement B

abc.aspx is a silent page, doesn’t display anything on the page but creates an output.txt file. So when abc.aspx is called, output.txt file is created and Statement B is executed seamlessly. Hope I made sense.

I have no .Net programming knowledge. Please help me.

Thank you..

Answer 1

You can create a HttpWebRequest object to call abc.apsx page

e.g.

HttpWebRequest myReq = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://host/abc.apsx");

or Using WebClient to fire a request to the web page.

   WebClient client = new WebClient ();

        // Add a user agent header in case the 
        // requested URI contains a query.
        // important to add user-agent to emulate a real request from browser. 
        client.Headers.Add ("user-agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.0.3705;)");

        Stream data = client.OpenRead ("http://host/abc.apsx");
        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader (data);
        string s = reader.ReadToEnd ();
        Console.WriteLine (s);
        data.Close ();
        reader.Close ();

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webclient(VS.80).aspx