I have this asp page test1.asp in the same server (different website) than this webservice. Thing is when i try to run this code
sUrl = "http://chat.xxxxx.com/UCWebServices/Chat.asmx/GetChatQueueByAddress?queueAddress=SALESCHAT"
result = HTTPPost(sUrl)
response.Write result
Function HTTPPost(sUrl)
set oHTTP = CreateObject("Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP")
oHTTP.open "GET", sUrl,false
oHTTP.send <-- it fails here <-- it fails here <-- it fails here <--
if oHTTP.Status = 200 Then
HTTPPost oHTTP.responseText
End if
End Function
%>
i get the following error
msxml3.dll error '80072efe'
The connection with the server was terminated abnormally
i googled up this issue thinking that maybe this was some little bs i could easily solve, but i am getting into some problems. It's not easy to make it work.
if we run the same page from anywhere else, then it works.
Any ideas?
This error code is ERROR_INTERNET_CONNECTION_ABORTED
. The most common reasons are a firewall or anti-virus interfering with the connection, a proxy borking the connection data. I can also be caused by a name resolution issue -- for example, if the host name resolves to 127.0.0.1 locally and the web server is bound to the public IP address only.
Another possibility; the server at the far end may be filtering (and dropping) requests based on browser agent strings, to prevent programmatic scraping.
What happens when you just request that URL in a regular browser?
When I got this error, the Event Logs indicated that w3wp.exe (the IIS App Pool) had crashed.
With Visual Studio, I opened the memory dump file that Event Viewer mentioned and the "Exception Information" had the message "The thread used up its stack."
It turned out that the code had a StackOverflowException that was crashing the app pool.
Some servers need a content-length header set for an HTTP POST to function properly.
In our case (using serverXMLHttp) this was needed:
xmlhttp.Open "POST", URL , false
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Length", Len(postdata)