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Hey Guys Just wanted to thank everybody one more time for all the help. My program is working now and the problem I was having was not on my side. I am able to send an xml file using the ActiveX object WinHTTP successfully. The problem was that they didn't resolve my IP address properly. Thanks again Igor

QUOTE (rolfk @ Apr 27 2009, 02:56 PM) Thank you Rolf I think that they haven't given me access to their server even though I have given them my IP address which I would be using for the data transfer. Thanks to everybody for the responses I think I have to try and hunt down somebody at that company.

QUOTE (rolfk @ Apr 27 2009, 02:48 PM) I think it is the name of the server that I have to post my data to: http://hermes.plexus-online.com That is the website that I can't even do a GET method on

QUOTE (rolfk @ Apr 24 2009, 07:02 AM) You tried http://www.plexus-online.com' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">www.plexus-online.com right? I can do a GET method on that page with my ActiveX program. It's when I try to do anything with the hermes server page, that I can't get any response from it.

QUOTE (asbo @ Apr 23 2009, 07:06 PM) I can't browse to the page with my browser, tried IE, Opera, and Mozilla. I have tried everything, and I'm coming to the point where I'm thinking that there is still some configuration to be done on hermes' end.

My biggest problem is that I can do a GET method and get a bunch of html displaying as a response. I can do a GET with my ActiveX WinHTTP on pretty much any site. www.plexus-online.com I use to punch in at work and hermes.plexus-online.com would be used for the uploaded file from me. How come I can do a GET on the first webpage, but when I'm trying to do a GET on the hermes server I get the error that my security policy denies me access. My IT guy has opened up ports for the hermes server but it still doesn't work. I was thinking that maybe the people that work with this hermes server haven't resolved my IP address even though I have given it to them? Sorry if the question is out of this forum but I need help Thank you

QUOTE (Mark Yedinak @ Apr 23 2009, 03:55 PM) With TCP/IP connections I was trying a simple GET method but I would get ERROR 56 which gave an explanation from LabVIEW: The network operation exceeded the user-specified or system time limit. Here is a screenshot of a simple client that I just made. Is there anybody that has worked with the ActiveX object WinHTTP successfully before so that they could maybe look at my code and help me out. Thanks

I don't really need to use ActiveX. I tried it with TCP/IP before I used ActiveX and that didn't work out. So I looked into using ActiveX object WinHTTP and it was actually easier to build then my TCP/IP program that I had. Could you maybe post a little more code that shows how you make a connection? I'm using LabVIEW 8.0 and LabVIEW 8.2 and the XML-RPC client/server project project in the code repository requires LabVIEW 8.5 and above. Thanks

I have made a program that takes a xml file and sends it to an off-site server. My problem is that the value of the content-length header will not change to the number I specify. I use wireshark to check what my request header looks like, and the content-length value never changes no matter what I put down. Does WinHTTP make up his own content-length? Thank you

QUOTE (mesmith @ Mar 19 2009, 03:17 PM) I'm connected to the internet through a proxy server is there anyway that I can specify which port I want ActiveX to use?

Does anybody know which port is used by ActiveX objects? I'm using WinHTTP and I want to know which port is used for outgoing packets. Thank you

Ok I took the advice and made a program using ActiveX WinHTTP object to send an xml file to a off-site server. Now I have included a screenshot of the program and I was wondering if anybody has experience with it to help me out. I get the error that the server name or address could not be resolved. I have tried other webpages and I used the method GET and I got all kinds of html data from it. Thank you

QUOTE (jdunham @ Mar 10 2009, 04:16 PM) Thank you very much for all the help. I think there is a problem with my proxy server. When I try telnet www.w3.org #port, and for #port I used the proxy server port and made www.w3.org as an exception and used proxycfg.exe to adapt the settings from the IE. I still can't connect to anything so I think my proxy server needs some modification.

QUOTE (jdunham @ Mar 10 2009, 02:01 PM) I think that this is my problem with my WinHTTP program. I have everything setup and I can get all kinds of html data from any website that I put in to the URL tab of the OPEN method. Now today I wanted to start and POST data to a server as a test and somebody setup a listener for me. The location of the listener was given to me as an IP address appended by ":XXX", X's being numbers. What bothers me here is that I can do GET on any other website but the one that they supplied me with I can't. They told me that they DNS doesn't have a name so everything has to be in IP addresses. I was just wondering if that would be my problem why I can't use GET with the IP address.

I'm using the ActiveX object WinHTTP to post xml data to a server. Now in the OPEN method the url has to be absolute. Now I only have the IP address of the server, and my question is can I somehow convert the IP address to an absolute url? Thank you

QUOTE (jdunham @ Mar 4 2009, 08:25 PM) You got it as soon as I looked a little bit into ActiveX, I thought "Ohhh hold your horses there LVbeginner". I figured that TCP/IP would be more straight forward, well at least it was while I was reading about it. Thanks I gues I will look more into the ActiveX portion. Okay one little question...should I use the WinHTTP or the WinINet feature.

QUOTE (jdunham @ Mar 4 2009, 08:13 PM) I don't want to browse the web. I have to write a program that will allow a user to transfer some data to an off-site server. Eventually I'm hoping to make that all automatic so that it will do that every hour or so. Right now I wrote a program that will ask for users input and make a xml file to a specific format given by the off-site server company. Now I have to send the xml file via the internet to the off-site server. I wanted to test the TCP/IP in a simple http client program before I go and adjust my program.

QUOTE (jdunham @ Mar 4 2009, 08:03 PM) Well that's good. Just found out that there is a proxy configuration. So now I will go to my IT department and see what they can do for me. Thanks for all the help

QUOTE (jdunham @ Mar 4 2009, 07:28 PM) I typed in "telnet www.w3.org 80" then it said connecting to www.w3.org, but after a while it said that the connection to the host on port 80 could not be opened...connection failed

QUOTE (jdunham @ Mar 4 2009, 06:46 PM) Well I tried that too, still no luck. Does it maybe have to do anything with the windows firewall maybe, even though labview is already an exception. Thanks

QUOTE (mesmith @ Mar 4 2009, 06:18 PM) I tried soing that but I get the same error 56 from LabVIEW. Is there something maybe I forgot to change in the options of LabVIEW? Thanks for the quick reply

Ok I have this simple HTTP server for testing purposes of the LabVIEW server and TCP/IP sockets. Now I can't get the TCP Open Connection function to open a connection. I get error 56 which is timeout error. I have turned TCP/IP on and I have turned the web server on in the LabVIEW options. I have also tried different ports but I can't establish a connection. Can somebody please help me out. I'm using LabVIEW 8.0 and have attached a screenshot of the .vi.

QUOTE (jdunham @ Feb 23 2009, 07:28 PM) I forgot to tell you sorry...I'm using a schema that is provided by the off site company that handles our servers. It is way more understandable than what you would get from just the flatten to xml function. So would that mean that they don't need to have LabVIEW? Thanks for the quick reply

Hi everybody, I have a program that asks the user for input and then the input is converted to xml format. I was wondering, because I have to send the saved xml file to a specific web address, does the other computer need to have LabVIEW on it or not. Basically the program takes information about an assembly line, for example parts produced, hits on tools and others, right now that data is entered in by hand and processed by the company that handels our servers. But none the less all I wanted to know is if the other computer is required to have LabVIEW or not. Thank you