Help with SOAP

I am writing a soap client to talk to a java web service. Using VB6 and the MS SOAP toolkit 3.0. I am able to send the request to the server but when I receive the response I keep getting the error:
Connector: Http error while parsing the server's response
I am using the low-level api because there is no WSDL file. Here is the code:

VB Code:

Option Explicit
Private Const SoapAction = _
"http://zeus:8080/Portal/services"
Private Const END_POINT_URL = _
"http://zeus:8080/Portal/services"
Private Const CALC_NS = "http://zeus:8080/Portal/services"
Private Function Execute(ByVal Method As String, _
                         ByVal A As String, _
                         ByVal B As String) As String
    
    Dim Serializer As SoapSerializer30
    Dim Reader As SoapReader30
    Dim ResultElm As IXMLDOMElement
    Dim FaultElm As IXMLDOMElement
    Dim Connector As SoapConnector30
    
    Set Connector = New HttpConnector30
    Connector.Property("EndPointURL") = END_POINT_URL
    Connector.Connect
    
    ' binding/operation/soapoperation
   ' Connector.Property("SoapAction") = SoapAction & Method
    Connector.BeginMessage
    
    Set Serializer = New SoapSerializer30
    Serializer.Init Connector.InputStream
    
    Serializer.StartEnvelope
    Serializer.StartBody
    Serializer.StartElement Method
    Serializer.StartElement "term"
    Serializer.WriteString CStr(A)
    Serializer.EndElement
    Serializer.StartElement "bank"
    Serializer.WriteString CStr(B)
    Serializer.EndElement
    Serializer.EndElement
    Serializer.EndBody
    Serializer.EndEnvelope
    
    Connector.EndMessage
        
    Set Reader = New SoapReader30
    Reader.Load Connector.OutputStream
    
    If Not Reader.Fault Is Nothing Then
        MsgBox Reader.FaultString.Text, vbExclamation
    Else
        Execute = CDbl(Reader.RpcResult.Text)
    End If
    
End Function
 
Private Sub Command1_Click()
MsgBox Execute("getTodaysSaltRequest", "000", "MCM1")
End Sub

Here is what the response looks like:

<soapenv:Body xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<getTodaysSaltReturn xmlns="">
<salt>30mHVAuwByScg</salt>
</getTodaysSaltReturn>
</soapenv:Body>



Was wondering if the response was not formatted right but do not know much about XML. Any help would be appreciated.