msxml3.dll error '80072ee2' in ASP Page

Question

We have just moved to a new dedicated server that has Windows 2008 and SQL Server 2008. I am trying to access an ASP page on the same server using Server.CreateObject

Answer 1

msxml3.dll is pretty old. It was distributed with Internet Explorer 6 to give you a rough idea.

Can you have someone install a later version on the server?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269238 gives you a list of versions to send to whoever it responsible for the server.

If the problem is genuinely down to a time out you could look into switching ASP buffering off. (This based soley on a guess that if the server object started to receive a response it would hold off on the timeout front.

Alternatively you coudl try processing the value on the client side, below is a function from some code I wrote which does this....

function getDets(RateID) {
    var xmlHttp;
    try {
        xmlHttp=new XMLHttpRequest();    // Firefox, Opera 8.0+, Safari
    }
    catch (e) {
        try {
        // Internet Explorer
        xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
        }
        catch (e) {
            try {
            xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            }
            catch (e) {
                alert("Your browser does not support AJAX!");
                return false;
            }
        }
    }
    xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=function()
    {
        if(xmlHttp.readyState==4) {
        var str;
        var newStr;
        str=xmlHttp.responseText
        newStr=str.split("|");
        window.document.all.OR2.style.display="block";
        window.document.all.OR3.style.display="block";    
        window.document.OvertimeRates.Description.value=newStr[0];
        window.document.OvertimeRates.Factor.value=newStr[1];
        }
    }
    if (RateID==0) {
        window.document.OvertimeRates.Description.value="";
        window.document.OvertimeRates.Factor.value="";
    }
    else {
        xmlHttp.open("GET","GetOvertimeRate.asp?RateID="+RateID,true);
        xmlHttp.send(null);
    }
}

Good luck!