Web services when data is not necessarily forked back

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Sorry, trying to figure this out. A web services client sends a request for data. However instead of Rails (web services server) sending back xml for the client to render, the web services server actually renders the data, would that still be a web service ? Hope this isn’t a confusing question.

My objective is to have Rails acting as the web services server but to deliver the data on request.

TIA Stuart

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I'm not sure what you're trying to do. You want to make a request to the web server and then have it return a web page? You certainly don't need web services for that...

A web service doesn't have to return data, and it would be possible to have it return a string of html if you wanted.