Forum ‹ C# ‹ How to call an external service from playerio ?

[remuo]

I want to run a physics engine in amazon ec2 and i want to use a wcf service, but it seems that its not possible due to the references restriction.

I get the following message:
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- error: Reference found to System.Runtime.Serialization. You can only reference PlayerIO.GameLibrary.dll
- error: Reference found to System.ServiceModel. You can only reference PlayerIO.GameLibrary.dll
...
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So how can i use an external service with playerio, is it possible ?
What is the best way to accomplish this ?

[Oliver]

The only way you can talk out of a game server is with the Web class:
http://playerio.com/documentation/refer ... ibrary.web

You can include other libraries in your code if you can get them in source form and they comply to the same requirements as your code (no static variables etc..)

- Oliver

[noel.kee]

How do it do a PlayerIO.Web.Post(...) with Basic HTTP Authentication? Or is this even possible?

[Oliver]

Hey,

You can't -- however, just add the authentication details in the post request as POST arguments, and you'll have exactly the same level of security as basic authentication.

- Oliver