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Posted by Jon Skeet [C# MVP] on 12/22/05 08:32
Mladen Gogala <gogala@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > I am in a bit of a bind. I'm looking for a simple "proof of concept" C#
> > app (WinForm OR console) that sends a web request to a simple PHP script
> > and receives BINARY data back from the PHP script. Binary data is
> > necessary because I want to be able to send files as well as compressed
> > (zipped) data.
> >
> > The example PHP script can ofcourse, simply make up some dummy data and
> > send it to the C# app. I have tried desperately over the last few weeks
> > to locate such an example, but have been unsuccesful so far. I would be
> > most grateful for anyone who can help.
>
> Susan, why don't you install PEAR MAIL_Mime package and send the binary
> data by email? What you want is, basically, to send data from PHP script
> to an application. That is usually done through messaging/queueing
> applications like MQSeries (part of WebSphere) or Tibco's RendesVous.
> In the absence of such complex queueing systems, an ordinary email
> might do the trick. It can be configured and played with, to make sure
> that the mail ends up on the right address.
> Another solution for two diverse system to communicate is to share a
> database. Binary data would then be uploaded as a BLOB field and the
> row pointer would be passed to the client.
That all sounds very complicated, considering that from all we've been
told, a simple web solution is a perfectly good (and *much* easier)
solution. After all, a browser requesting an image conforms exactly to
the situation Susan specified. There's no need to get message queues,
email or a database involved.
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