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i added a high-level function to the exyus engine this evening that makes it easy to publish a resource that makes a call to a remote HTTP server and displays the results. basically, it's a (very) simple HTTP proxy. below is an example of the resource class definition:

// simple direct get handler
[UriPattern(@"/remote/(\.xcs)(.*)?")]
[MediaTypes("text/html")]
public class remotePage : StaticHandler
{
    public remotePage()
    {
        this.Content = Helper.LoadUrl("http://www.amundsen.com/blog/");
    }
}

the code behind the Helper.LoadUrl method is pretty simple, too. it takes advantage of the Requestor class in exyus:

public static string LoadUrl(string url)
{
    return LoadUrl(url, "text/html");
}
public static string LoadUrl(string url, string contenttype)
{
    string rtn = string.Empty;
    Requestor req = new Requestor();
    rtn = req.Execute(url, "get", contenttype);
    req = null;

    return rtn;
}

there are a number of things that could be done to make the LoadUrl method a bit more robust. things like adding support for headers, credentials, a bit of error handling, etc. all this is available in the Requestor class - just not exposed here. but the point is, this kind of thing is pretty easy.