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 ASCII line which will have 4 values delimited by semicolons back into 4 variables in my original ASP page so that I can take those values and do something with them.
This is the page I want to access with HTTP GET Request http://www.certigo.com/demo/request.asp. Three of the values are null here.
I don't know much/anything about ASP, so I have this:
Dim oXMLHTTP
Dim strStatusTest
Set oXMLHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0")
oXMLHTTP.Open "GET", "http://www.certigo.com/demo/request.asp", False
oXMLHTTP.Send
If oXMLHTTP.Status = 200 Then
strStatusText = oXMLHTTP.responseBody
End If
but obviously I haven't a clue what I'm doing because this isn't working at all. I would be totally unsurprised to learn that what I have here isn't going in the right direction. Please help!!
-Tracy
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.