HTTP Communication and Security with Silverlight

Silverlight enables HTTP/HTTPS communication with Web services hosted both within and outside the domain that is hosting your Silverlight application. This topic discusses HTTP communication and security considerations for Silverlight application developers and Web service developers.

This topic contains the following sections:

HTTP Capabilities in Silverlight
HTTP Communication Scenarios and Recommended Approaches
Options for Making HTTP Calls
Cross-Domain Communication

HTTP Capabilities in Silverlight
  In Silverlight, there are some basic capabilities for HTTP/HTTPS communication. The capabilities vary depending on whether you use the browser hosting the Silverlight application to perform the HTTP handling, or you opt to use the Silverlight client to perform the HTTP handling. For information about how to specify the HTTP handling for your applications, see How to: Specify Browser or Client HTTP Handling.

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