beginner, connecting to webservices outside of .net

[andy]

Hi

I will soon be asked to develop an app that calls xml over http.
Its a MYSQL database on linux.


I guess this means making a call to a webservice that the dba/developer
provides ?
is this the same as taling to a .net webservice, i cant imagine it
would be as straight forward as making a reference to a webservice
developed in .net, that would be too easy.

Does anyone have any experience here, the issues/problems i need to be
aware of when costing this project?

On the security side, i guess as long as the server serves the xml data
from https then the calls to the webservice will be secure ?

Thanks for any help on this...

 

[m.posseth]

yes i have experience with

webservices created in delphi and webservices created with progress running
on Linux machines

my experience is that i had a lot of problems getting it to work with the
standard methods for some unknown reasson the values were returned in the
wrong indexes
when the methods used byref values

solution ?? wel i just clicked show all files , clicked the webreference
and copied an pasted the proxy class that .Net genereates i have modified
the class to my own needs ( changed the indexes )
and now it is working fine


regards

Michel Posseth [MCP]