Posting out to 3rd party API
Example of taking data in the form of a Model from your site and sending it out somewhere else and getting back a httpresponsemessage. [HttpPost] public HttpResponseMessage Post(Appt_Model_DTO appt) { >>>>You could eliminate this portion if (ModelState.IsValid) { //not necessary but you can run some checks to make sure the data is good //that the model is valid and there is not //you posted this data from your MVC site to your API Controller //Now we are going to send it off to a third party site if (appt.ID == null) { appt.ID = my_provider.getRecordwithSameIdentity(appt.AccountCode); } appt.StartDateTime = DateTime.Now; if (appt.POSID ==0) { return Request.CreateErrorResponse(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest, ModelState); } >>>>>> And start here