Response and Request Handling

The server control architecture is built on top of a more fundamental processing architecture, which may be called request/response. Understanding request/response is important to solidify our overall grasp of ASP.NET. Also, in certain programming situations request/response is the natural approach. The HttpRequest objects handles the information that the Web server receives from the client, and the HttpResponse object is responsible for the information that is sent back to the client.

HttpRequest Class

The System.Web namespace contains a useful class, HttpRequest, that can be used to read the various HTTP values sent by a client during a Web request. These HTTP values would be used by a classical CGI program in ...

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