BigGT3Fan

Help!

I need to submit an XMLRPC call using SSL from VB6. I've been given a certificate for the SSL connection which I've installed in my PC certificate store.

I am instantiating the ServerXMLHTTP object from MSXML4 SDK. Then I want to Post the XML at a URL and get the response back doing something like this:

Set objXMLReq = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")

Call objXMLReq.open("POST", _
"https://someurl", False)

Call objXMLReq.send(strMessage)

strResponse = objXMLReq.responseText

This rejects me, as I am obviously not using the certificate to establish the SSL connection. Anyone know what I should be doing.

TIA,




Alex

SCOSaltire

do you know the exact error?

are you sure that the correct certificate is being picked up?
could you use the setOption method SXH_OPTION_SELECT_CLIENT_SSL_CERT to define the correct certificate to be used?

or even use the setOption method and SXH_OPTION_IGNORE_SERVER_SSL_CERT_ERROR_FLAGS to see if you can get it working without the certificate... not sure about this tho, not used it.

msdn

BigGT3Fan

I'm doing both of those :-(

I'm ignoring all errors, and specifying the name of the client cert with two setoption calls, but I think I need to do more - just don't know what

SCOSaltire

dont know what has to be done at the mo
but ill have more of a think

can u use the certificate in another way?
to ensure that it works?
have u connected to a non-SSL url and achieved success with the code?
... off to think more..

BigGT3Fan

I don't have any non-SSL URL's to try

The SSL URL, when browsed to returns an access error, even though I have the cert installed in the browser cert store, but the other party told me that I wouldn't be able to browse to it.

When they do it from Java, they set up an SSL socket connection, assign the cert to it and then connect through that, but I can't find any alternatives in VB


Alex