Want to avoid the Web.UI.Page lifecycle for Ajax requests

[DotNetNewbie]

Hi,

I am implement ajax in a web application, and I want to avoid having
to go through the entire asp.net page lifecycle since I will be simply
return back html/xml, and I have no need of the .net page lifecycle
events.

What do you suggest is the best way of doing this?

I am thinking I could put all ajax related code in a seperate folder
like:

/wwwroot/web/
/wwwroot/web/callbacks/ <---- contains the .aspx pages that will
return back the html or xml from Ajax calls.


I guess my only choice is to create a HttpModule? How would I do it
so it only fires for ajax calls? Would I just override the begin
request even then?

 

[KH]

Would a simple http handler - .ashx file - would work?