Posted by roN on 11/30/56 11:36

Andy Dingley schrieb:
> On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 17:18:54 -0600, "Ron Eggler" <test@example.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm supposed to send following request as a html-request(from a html-link)
>> is it possible?
>
> No, you need to do it in a rather more sophisticated way than just
> coding it into HTML. Try reading the book "AJAX in Action" as a good
> guide to the state-of-the-art in client-side SOAP techniques. It's a
> good book, AJAX is worth learning, and most of the older SOAP textbooks
> are too much about the server side and not about the client.
>
> You might also find a very old downloadable article on MSDN by Aaron(?)
> Skonnard which had a useful little SOAP client and demonstration coded
> in a simple HTML page using the XMLHTTP component. It's pretty old, but
> it was a useful example of code you can re-cycle.
>
> AJAX techniques will generally be more cross-browser portable than MS'
> pure-IE solutions, but you're still looking at some fairly hairy code.
>
>
> I forget why, but it's actually _impossible_ to send any valid SOAP
> request from a simple browser address bar - there's a required header
> which won't be included. Trivial to add when you're coding to some sort
> of HTTP component, but it locks out the plain "browsers".

Hm, okay, sounds good, I'll go and look for that, thank you!
But my problem is, I don't have the time to read thru all that stuff now
cause it should have been finished yesterday (of course as always...).
So could you please do me a favor and give me some more specific hints
on how to solve that issue?
Thank you!

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