You're looking to call a SOAP Web Service. Unfortunately native tools for this are all deprecated. VFP comes with the SOAP Toolkit in the box that you can use to access SOAP services which works reasonably well with simple services but is a nightmare if you have complex objects that get returned from the service as the object mapping only works one level deep. Depending on the service though this might be the easiest solution to try first.

You can also use .NET to call Web Services.

Create and Consuming Web Services with FoxPro and .NET

which describes how you can call Web Services using .NET which provides a solid and current Web service client framework.

If you want to do this a little bit easier yet, my company also makes the West Wind Web Service Proxy generator which wraps the .NET approach described in the article into an automated tool so you don't have to deal with the .NET part of the above process.

West Wind Web Service Proxy Generator


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>Hi, I have one application that needs to use a web service. I first tried using VFP9's toolbox to register it and test it, but when I try to do it, it shows me an error. What I noticed is that the url of the web service does not end with a "wsdl" extension, instead it has this form: "https://app.supplier.com/ws/" (this is not the real url, but it looks like it), and the url to call a method called "Login" is like: "https://app.supplier.com/ws/WSsupplier.asmx?op=Login".
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>So, how can I use that web service?
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>Thank you in advance.