>Listen to the actual request sent over the wire via network sniffing tool or proxy on your machine. Been quite some time since I did that (HTTP was not banned to force HTTPS), so for current tools Google or look through West-Wind.

Sounds like good advice. Thanks. I found out how to do this 101 WebRequest. :)


>>This works:
>>

>>Dim request As WebRequest = WebRequest.Create(_ur_l)
>>Dim response As WebResponse = request.GetResponse()
>>Dim reader As IO.StreamReader = New IO.StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())
>>Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd)
>>

>>My (currently absent colleague) wrote a webservice that works fine in Excel vba. You run the webrequest function with an ("GET"like) url and it returns a value. He told me that he returns the value in a php echo statement, and I can see it when I navigate the url from a browser.
>>
>>In vb.net I execute a webrequest.create and then a request.GetResponse. But I do not find the value.
>>
>>Cannot ask what I'm missing, because I guess I'm showing my ignorance on the matter, but can anybody put me on the right track?
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