Thomas, just a quick reply over this.

I asked Zoran for the WSDL before going into further detail. You're absolutely right that most WS nowadays wouldn't be handled by the SOAP Toolkit that comes with VFP. But it could be the case, still...

As a side note: I've never used the SOAP Toolkit in production, but I know where to find documentation about it ;-)


>Technically Antonio is totally correct - those are the things to read if you start Web Services from naked vfp. But this is one of the very few times I think Antonio is not pointing in the best direction for "whole problem" ;-)
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>Web services developed a lot from the time vfp toolkit was maintained - so much that later security enhancements rendered vfp toolkit nearly useless. "Automatics" like security tokens, hidden structures and further enhancements mostly grown via Java tools to produce backend cannot be resolved via toolkit.
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>Go at it from the side offfering the service: often they offer a demo package, installable with own dummy server, both with Java and Dotnet clients. Easiest thing is to wrap those clients via COM (old Jacob on Java works well enough, either use west-wind or compile dotnet client for COM access), as they will be automatically maintained, you "only"need to map API changes. Probably you still will encounter snags, but less and much later.
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>If web service is odd man out, chances are that pure vfp analysis plus direct comm are still easier than hidebound vfp toolkit.
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>been there - did this a lot
>thomas
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>If you want to stay away from these approaches, visit Wet-Wind, as Rick is best autority on vfp and internet and has maintained tools for XML and web services longer -
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>>>I need to use data from web service for a first time on my programmer life (wsdl based on soap). Can you suggest me what articles to read and learn how to do it? Maybe some examples?
>>>How to install soap? Service should be used on win7 and win10 PCs.
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>>>Thanks in advance.
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>>Zoran,
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>>The easiest way for you to get some help on your project will be probably to share the WSDL URL.
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>>The Help file will be your starting point if you're going to use the SOAP Toolkit.
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>>Using Visual FoxPro
>>/ Developing Visual FoxPro applications
>>// Web Services and Components
>>/// XML Web Services in Visual FoxPro
>>//// How to: Access XML Web Services