Consuming a web service

Hi

Someone has given me the URL of a "web service". It's something like:
"http://www.someHost.com/service.asp?input=value

What happens is I send it an input key and an associated value and it
returns a set of values.

I have to write an ASP page (not .NET) that calls this page and loads the
return value into a variant and I'm not sure quite how to achieve this.
Presume it's dead easy though...

Any pointers would be most appreciated.

Thanks

Griff

GriffithsJ
Mon Jan 19 04:38:43 CST 2004

Just to confirm, the "web service" that I'm calling is on a completely
different web server. "execute" or "transfer" therefore won't work.

Griff

Joe
Mon Jan 19 05:43:59 CST 2004

"GriffithsJ" <GriffithsJ_520@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Just to confirm, the "web service" that I'm calling is on a completely
> different web server. "execute" or "transfer" therefore won't work.
>
> Griff
>
Try typing http://www.someHost.com/service.asp?wdsl into your browser, you
should get a complicated xml description of the service. If so you can use a
number of tools to access the service, there are hundreds of examples on the
web. Search google for 'soapClient30' for instance. Here is one example
http://www.asp101.com/articles/jeremy/googlespell/default.asp. If not you
can see what format the results are in by entering the url into the browser
if it returns xml then a good choice is using msxml2.xmlhttp.4.0 class for
accessing and parsing results. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/htm/sdk_intro_6g53.asp?frame=true for the sdk.

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Joe