Remotely interact with MTS component over Inet

[lychew]

read this article and see if it helps...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ps...lding_8iur.htm

[André]

Hi, you know? you have to be on the same LAN to be able to use MTS components since they are In-process components.

If I understand your problem correctly, you want to invoke a method through your ASP page on a server running MTS outside your LAN.

If this is correct you should look at SOAP 1.1, simple object access protocol. SOAP is XML based which means that it will get through any firewall since it's just text. In this XML you declare the PROGID and the needed parameters. Then the remote server will intantiate the object and return the result as an XML formatted string.

This is very new technology and I suggest you read about it from the microsoft website, SOAP and XML.

cheers,

André

[Clunietp]

MTS components run out-of-process (at least across machines, they can run in-proc for ASP apps on the same server)

We won't be able to use SOAP/XML until the VB7 web services

right now, you'll have to call your MTS component over HTTP, because if a firewall separates the LANs, the DCOM port is probably blocked...

[André]

You can use SOAP now, you can download SOAP 1.1 from the microsoft site, and there is also a jump start kit where COM objects written in VB handle this call protocol.

André