Classic ASP or SOAP for XML?

[trevor- 0]

I have a web service that I have to connect my company to. I don't actually know anything about ASP other than it seems to use VB Script which is just like VB 6.0 which is VBA so I at least know the syntax, and I've been using it for a few weeks now. I have also never used XML.That aside, the web service takes XML attributes. Should I either do this with classic ASP:

<%response.ContentType="text/xml"response.Write "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>"response.Write  "<ProcessCreditCard xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'"response.Write	  " xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'"response.Write	  " xmlns='http://TPISoft.com/SmartPayments/'>"response.Write	  "<UserName>" & Session("?") & "</UserName>"response.Write	  "<Password>" & Session("?") & "</Password>"response.Write	  "<TransType>" & Session("?") & "</TransType>"response.Write  "</ProcessCreditCard>"%>

Or turn this soap 1.2 code into a bunch of response.Write's (I read that you can use SOAP with classic ASP?):

POST /smartpayments/transact.asmx HTTP/1.1Host: secure1.pivotalpayments.comContent-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8Content-Length: length<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">  <soap12:Body>	<ProcessCreditCard xmlns="http://TPISoft.com/SmartPayments/">	  <UserName>string</UserName>	  <Password>string</Password>	  <TransType>string</TransType>	</ProcessCreditCard>  </soap12:Body></soap12:Envelope>

Would one way be better? Can I use SOAP with ASP, or will I need to install something on the IIS server? Is my ASP code bit set up right? Does SOAP require that envelope?Any help is greatly appreciated.

[justsomeguy 1,135]

Check the tutorials on the site regarding web services and SOAP, those should answer most of your questions. If you're connecting with a web service then it would make sense to use SOAP techniques to do it.

[trevor- 0]

Thank you, I totally missed SOAP so I will look for that now (only saw XML tutorials that didn't help me much, other than telling me I could just send XML requests directly with classic ASP). Just wondering though, why not use classic ASP directly instead of ... mimicking(?) SOAP through classic ASP?

[justsomeguy 1,135]

SOAP is a wrapper for automating much of the tasks of dealing with a web service. Sure, you could do it all yourself, but it would make more sense to have certain things automated for you.

[trevor- 0]

I read the tutorial on SOAP, so now I understand all of the SOAP syntax that was thrown at me, however I'm still unsure of how to make SOAP work with a classic ASP webpage. Can I response.write all of the SOAP lines in a .asp file?

[justsomeguy 1,135]

There's an example of using a web service in classic ASP here:http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/ASP/Consuming-a...rvice-from-ASP/We also have a web services forum here specifically for this stuff, you can probably find several answers there as well.