"Mike Hanson" <MikeHanson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am working on a web app that needs to get xml data from a classic ASP
> application hosted on a remote server.
>
> If I reference the url with IE, the xml is displayed correctly and
> formatted
> using the default style sheet, so we know the page is working for a
> standard
> browser request.
>
> However if I access the page using either XmlDocument.Load() or and
> HttpWebRequest I get an "Internal Server Error 500"
>
> The following should work as far as I can tell from documentation and
> samples
>
> XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
> xmlDoc.Load("http://server/pag.asp");
>
> But the second line results in the exception. The stack trace shows that
> the Load method has used an HttpWebRequest and throws the exception at the
> point where GetResponse() is called. Which is the same point the
> exception
> is thrown if I use the HttpWebRequest directly.
>
> This is fairly urgent, so any help will be greatly appreciated.