HTTP GET Request, ASP - I'm lost!

Question

Using VBScript with ASP I am trying to set up an HTTP GET Request which will visit a page which in turn generates a line of ASCII (non-HTML). I then want to extrapolate that

Answer 1

Try changing the oXMLHTTP.responseBody to oXMLHTTP.responseText and see if that works.

Refer to this web page if you need some more information on this technique:

http://classicasp.aspfaq.com/general/how-do-i-read-the-contents-of-a-remote-web-page.html.

Answer 2

Your code should look like this:-

Function GetTextFromUrl(url)

  Dim oXMLHTTP
  Dim strStatusTest

  Set oXMLHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.3.0")

  oXMLHTTP.Open "GET", url, False
  oXMLHTTP.Send

  If oXMLHTTP.Status = 200 Then

    GetTextFromUrl = oXMLHTTP.responseText

  End If

End Function

Dim sResult : sResult = GetTextFromUrl("http://www.certigo.com/demo/request.asp")

Note use ServerXMLHTTP from within ASP, the XMLHTTP component is designed for client side usage and isn't safe to use in the multithreaded environment such as ASP.