R – the meaning of generating a proxy for a web service ?( .NET in specific)

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What does it mean to generate a new proxy for the Web service?
What is proxy?
I already added web service url into web references.
What is disco, wsdl and asmx file?

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If you're using .NET, the Web Service Proxy refers to the classes that .NET generates for you (after adding a Web Reference) so that you can interact with the Web Service in your code.

If you're new to development and .NET, you wouldn't notice anything special about the proxy. You'd just consider it the classes you use to interact with the service...but it's what does the heavy lifting behind the scenes to format the SOAP envelope and serialize your requests.

UPDATE

And here's an answer to your edit:

.disco - A file that allos for the discovery of web services on a give server. It's not used often and the standard format that serves the same purpose is UDDI.

.wsdl - Web Service Definition Language. This file defines everything about your service. Available methods, data types, etc.

.asmx - The actual service you would browse to. Equivalent to an aspx file for a .NET Web Page.

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You should take a look at Dynamic Proxy for WCF (I'm sorry, but I can seem to find a link to it right now) - it's a library that lets you inspect services at runtime (if they publish their metadata), and also invoke methods (no need for metadata to do that).

Edit: actually, it seems that there is a project on Codeplex to do just that: SIF

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Try to declare UseHttpGet over your method.

[ScriptMethod(UseHttpGet = true)]
public string HelloWorld()
{
    return "Hello World";
}

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