SOAP Help

[EltonHenley]

Hey guys!

Ok...I would like to seek your help with a problem I've run into.

I am writing an automated quote response system that requires interfacing with a credit bureau to automatically get a credit report for each customer.

The 3rd party credit company (Equifax) has provided us with some documents outlining how we should send the data and how we should expect to receive it (byte positions, lengths etc...). They are using a SOAP interface for all of this...and that's the issue. I can do standard socket programming but I've never used SOAP.

Here are some notes:

- This is being written in Visual Basic 6.0.
- They have provided me with the WSDL URL
- They have provided me with two methods, sendRequest(), and getResponse().

That's pretty much it. It looks like SOAP should be pretty easy but I have no idea where to get started. I downloaded PocketSOAP but do I even need it?

Any help would be really appreciated, guys!

[EltonHenley]

Hmm. I'm thinking maybe SOAP is one of those black-arts that isn't very well known.

Would be nice if this 3rd party company was using another protocol or method of connection.

[benmartin101]

Did they give you a url that ends with .asmx? If so, then you would just add that as a web reference. Then you can treat it like any other object.

Note: I did this in .NET, so i'm not sure if vb6 allows web reference.

[EltonHenley]

Ben: Thanks for the response!

Actually the URL looks like the following:

https://DOMAIN.COM/services/Auth?WSDL

...and I'm thinking I can't do the web reference thing in VB 6.

Any other ideas? Thanks again!