XML and ASP: Retrieve and parse a remote file

Question

I\'m building a site on a Windows Server with ASP enabled. I need to retrieve an XML document from another server and return a value in that document. The xml file is small

Answer 1

As Pete Duncanson said, the first thing to try is to untick "Show friendly error messages".

If you are still getting 500 errors they are probably coming from IIS (you can probably tell by looking at them). I have put up a guide for enabling error messages on IIS7 here if you need that.