Question

I need to consume an external web service from my VB6 program. I want to be able to deploy my program without the SOAP toolkit, if possible, but that’s not a requirement. I do not have the web service source and I didn’t create it. It is a vendor-provided service.

So outside of the SOAP toolkit, what is the best way to consume a web service from VB6?

Answer 1

I use this function to get data from a web service.

Private Function HttpGetRequest(url As String) As DOMDocument     Dim req As XMLHTTP60     Set req = New XMLHTTP60     req.Open 'GET', url, False     req.send ''      Dim resp As DOMDocument     If req.responseText <> vbNullString Then         Set resp = New DOMDocument60         resp.loadXML req.responseText     Else         Set resp = req.responseXML     End If     Set HttpGetRequest = resp End Function