Reponse.Redirect in a Web Service?

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I’d like to redirect a user to a specific page (a download for a zip file actually, http://www.yo.com/dl/yo.zip for example) from a web method. Could anyone tell me how to do this? I’m guessing I’d need to set the content type to something specific and write something to the response stream.

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Hmm… I’m not sure this is something you can do. But I haven’t looked into. Couldn’t you use teh web service to stream the file down?

:slight_smile:

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Found this on MSDN:

Redirection

If you need to provide a redirect response in your Web service, do not use the Context.Response.Redirect method because the HTTP response will differ from what the Basic Profile mandates. [R1130]

The following example shows how to give a redirect response that complies with the Basic Profile:

[WebMethod]
public string HelloWorld()
{
Context.Response.StatusCode = 307;
Context.Response.AddHeader(“Location”,“<redirect URL>”);
return null;
}

Don’t know if that helps at all!

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That worked. Thanks.

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