"Mark" <mark_kurten@acordia.com> wrote in message
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> i have a very simple web servive
>
> Imports System.Web.Services
>
> <System.Web.Services.WebService(Namespace:="urn:Example1")> _
>
> Public Class Example1
>
> Inherits System.Web.Services.WebService
>
>
>
>
> <WebMethod()> _
>
> Public Function HelloWorld(ByVal name As String) As String
>
> Return "Hello " & name
>
> End Function
>
> End Class
>
>
>
> I have a VB Script with which I'm trying to send a soap message with.
When
> i execute i get to the input soap message message box showing me the
> message, but when i click ok, it seems to hang. i have to kill the script
> through taskmgr. this is on windows 2000.
>
> Any ideas why it wouldn't return?
>
>
>
>
>
> Dim x, h
> Set x = CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument")
> x.loadXML "<s:Envelope xmlns:s='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'
> xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance'
> xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema'><s:Body><m:sayHello
> xmlns:m='urn:Example1'><name
> xsi:type='xsd:string'>James</name></m:sayHello></s:Body></s:Envelope>"
>
> msgbox x.xml, , "Input SOAP Message"
> Set h = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
> h.open "POST", "http://localhost/HelloWorld/Service1.asmx"
> h.send (x)
> while h.readyState <> 4
> wend
> msgbox h.responseText,,"Output SOAP Message"
>
>
>

"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@yahoo.de> wrote in message
news:udpTJrICFHA.3936@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>
>
> Mark wrote:
>
> > It appears something is wrong with my soap message
> > itself. I'm using the
> > HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse objects to send/receive this data.
>
> Why? If you are using .NET (as HttpWebRequest suggests) then simply
> create a proxy class to use the web service, .NET has a tool called
> wsdl.exe to do exactly that to avoid anyone having to deal with SOAP
> itself (which is complex). The wsdl.exe tool reads the WSDL file
> describing the web service and generates .NET source code for a proxy
> class which you can compile and then include in your .NET project to
> easily access the web service transparently calling methods on the proxy
> without ever dealing with SOAP.
>
> As for your earlier message that looked like you were using VBScript,
> even there MS has a toolkit named SOAP toolkit that helps you with
> accessing web services without the need to construct the raw SOAP from
> hand. Look on http://msdn.microsoft.com/ for SOAP toolkit, download it
> and check the examples on how to build a SOAP client with script.
>
>
>
> > The error I'm getting is
> >
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
> > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> > xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
> > <soap:Body>
> > <soap:Fault>
> > <faultcode>soap:Client</faultcode>
> > <faultstring>Unable to handle request without a valid action
> > parameter. Please supply a valid soap action.</faultstring>
> > <detail />
> > </soap:Fault>
> > </soap:Body>
> > </soap:Envelope>
>
> Well SOAP over HTTP needs a custom HTTP header named SOAPAction which
> (untested and written from memory) needs to be alike
>
> SOAPAction: urn:Example1/HelloWorld
>
> for your web service so if you really want to use HttpWebRequest or
> Msmxl2.XMLHTTP to access a web service then you need to make sure you
> set that HTTP header (not SOAP header!) before sending your request.
>
> But as said, there are tools with both COM based application (like VB or
> VBScript or JScript) and .NET to free you from thinking about that
> stuff, you simply call a method and get a result in the language of your
> choice and the whole SOAP creation and parsing is done by the tools
> reading the WSDL description of the web service.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Martin Honnen
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Mark wrote:

> It appears something is wrong with my soap message
> itself. I'm using the
> HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse objects to send/receive this data.

> The error I'm getting is
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
> <soap:Body>
> <soap:Fault>
> <faultcode>soap:Client</faultcode>
> <faultstring>Unable to handle request without a valid action
> parameter. Please supply a valid soap action.</faultstring>
> <detail />
> </soap:Fault>
> </soap:Body>
> </soap:Envelope>