On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Vince Teachout <[email protected]> wrote: > > If I'm understanding Ted's response correctly, though, I can do both send > and receive from a VFP program on the MS server, which would be perfect for > me. Thanks! >
Well, what you know when you say "the vendor uses SOAP" isn't much more than saying "the vendor uses electricity -- can I do that from VFP?" The answer is "Yeah, but..." Simple Object Access Protocol is MS's "me, too!" answer to low-level messaging on the internet. In simple form, you send a properly formatted "What's up?" to a SOAP API on a server, and it says "Wazzup!" back to you. Of course, from there, it gets way more complex: there's authorization/login, authentication, properly formatting your request and decrypting their response, there's WSDL as a sort of web service description language, and of course there are incompatible versions of SOAP 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0. And almost no one actually implements everything to the spec, so there's always some adjustment to get things working right. But the basic answer is that "FoxPro can do SOAP." -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4t7=7c+z0mzks6bxserpxy3wd8niriya-68nsjnbud...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
