How to consume a web service from VB6?

Question

I need to consume an external web service from my VB6 program. I want to be able to deploy my program without the SOAP toolkit, if possible, but that\'s not a requirement. I

Answer 1

The SOAP toolkit is arguably the best you could get. Trying to do the same thing without it would require considerable extra effort. You need to have quite serious reasons to do that.

The format of the SOAP messages is not really easy to read or write manually and a third-party library is highly advised.