Question

I need to POST data to a url in the middle of a script.

1. User fills out form:
2. Form submits to process.asp: I need to POST data to a 3rd Party integration at this point.
3. process.asp finishes and directs user to thank you page.

Answer 1

I’m not sure why everybody else is posting ASP.Net solutions when you specifically said you’re using ASP ‘classic.’

Something like this should work. I didn’t write the code; I found it elsewhere. But the MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP object is what you want to use if you don’t want to purchase something commercial.

function getHTML (strUrl)     Set xmlHttp = Server.Createobject('MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP')     xmlHttp.Open 'GET', strUrl, False     xmlHttp.setRequestHeader 'User-Agent', 'asp httprequest'     xmlHttp.setRequestHeader 'content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'     xmlHttp.Send     getHTML = xmlHttp.responseText     xmlHttp.abort()     set xmlHttp = Nothing    end function  

You might need to add some error-handling code to that for use in a production environment. I believe that object throws errors if it gets a 404 or timeout error. You’ll need to ‘trap’ them ASP-style (yuck) by setting On Error Resume Next before the .Send and then examine the ASP error object to see if there was a problem.

Good luck!