Calling a Webservice from VBScript or ASP

Posted on November 2, 2006 by Nishant Pant

With so much push towards SOA architectures, you might have lot of your common code encapsulated in Webservices. Calling a webservice from .Net is a piece of cake. But how about calling a webservice from ASP or VBscript ?? That sounds like a practical requirement to me.

Well the two solutions I can suggest are :

1. Use SOAP toolkit – You will have to install the SOAP toolkit on your system

input.JPGusingsoaphtml.txt (Right click –> save target –> and then open in Notepad)
2. Use XMLHTTP – Real simple and you don’t have to install anything on your machine.

input.JPGusingxmlhttphtml.txt (Right click –> save target –> and then open in Notepad)

Filed under: ASP, VBScript /VB6

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4 Responses

  1. Alex Turner, on March 10th, 2007 at 8:04 pm Said:

    I agree with the thrust of this. Web-services are kind of taking over the world. Using the xmlhttp makes it really easy to access web services from VBScript or JScript. I have written up quite bit on this at http://www.nerds-central.com, including some stuff on loading Excel from a web service.

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  3. jayson, on September 23rd, 2008 at 10:50 pm Said:

    Saludos Jayson

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  4. Todd Harvey, on September 25th, 2008 at 12:49 pm Said:

    ‘ http://techrepublic.com.com/html/tr/sidebars/1050036-1.html
    ‘ call a web service from windows script

    Const HOST = “http://localhost/stuff/ws/”
    Const URL = “servicename.asmx”

    ‘ Create the HTTP object
    Set xmlhttp = CreateObject(“Microsoft.XMLHTTP”)
    xmlhttp.open “POST”, _
    HOST & URL & “/escalate” , _
    false

    ‘Set the Content-Type header to the specified value
    xmlhttp.setRequestHeader “Content-Type”, _
    “application/x-www-form-urlencoded”

    ‘ Send the request synchronously
    xmlhttp.send

    MsgBox xmlhttp.responseText

    ‘Msgbox HOST

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