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

Assuming that you're running on Windows XP Professional or above, one interesting method is to use the SOAP moniker. Here's an example, lifted from some MSDN page. I don't know if this particular service works, but you get the idea...

   set SoapObj = GetObject
       ("soap:wsdl=http://www.xmethods.net/sd/TemperatureService.wsdl")
   WScript.Echo "Fairbanks Temperature = " & SoapObj.getTemp("99707")

This mechanism also works from VBScript. Which is nice.