Friday, March 14, 2008 @ 11:42 am,ASP,Matt Pavey
I don't get to dabble in classic ASP much anymore, which is ok with me, but for the first time in years I had to debug some ASP code this morning to figure out an error for someone who is consuming one of our webservices.
The code was as simple as this:
Set MyXmlHttp = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
MyXmlHttp.open "get", "https://www.test.com/webservice.asmx/GetSites?StudyID=35", False
MyXmlHttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/xml"
MyXmlHttp.send()
XmlData = MyXmlHttp.responseText
Response.Write(Server.HtmlEncode(XmlData))
The error was:
HTTP Error 403.1 - Forbidden: Execute access is denied
Can you spot the problem?
MyXmlHttp.open "GET", "https://www.test.com/webservice.asmx/GetSites?StudyID=35", False
It might not be obvious what I changed, but simply changing the method from "get" to "GET" fixed the problem.
I wondered if this was a bug but this MSDN article seems to confirm that the method is case-sensitive and must be in UPPER case.
"The HTTP method used to open the connection, such as PUT or PROPFIND. For ServerXMLHTTP, this parameter is case-sensitive and the method name must be entered in all upper-case letters."
