well i don't really require IE, all i am trying to do in the Web Service is to load a web page over the internet. so for example, i am trying to create a test web service that returns the weather for a particular postal code. my colleague calls my web service and passes a postal code. my web service goes out to www.weather.com and gets the weather for that postal code and then returns in.

don't know how else i can do this without using IE from within the web service.

thanks.