Calling REST web services from a classic asp page

Question

I\'d like to start moving our application business layers into a collection of REST web services. However, most of our Intranet has been built using Classic ASP and most of

Answer 1

@KP

You should actually use MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP from ASP/server side applications. XMLHTTP should only be used client side because it uses WinInet which is not supported for use in server/service apps.

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290761, questions 3, 4 & 5 and

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238425/.

This is quite important, otherwise you'll experience your web app hanging and all sorts of strange nonsense going on.