web services - the connection with the server was terminated abnormally xmlhttp

Question

I have this asp page test1.asp in the same server (different website) than this webservice. Thing is when i try to run this code

sUrl = "http://chat.xxxxx.com/UCWebServices/Chat.asmx/GetChatQueueByAddress?queueAddress=SALESCHAT"

result = HTTPPost(sUrl)

response.Write result

Function HTTPPost(sUrl)
  set oHTTP = CreateObject("Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP")
  oHTTP.open "GET", sUrl,false
  oHTTP.send <-- it fails here <-- it fails here <-- it fails here <--
  if oHTTP.Status = 200 Then
     HTTPPost oHTTP.responseText
  End if
 End Function
%>

i get the following error

msxml3.dll error '80072efe'

The connection with the server was terminated abnormally

i googled up this issue thinking that maybe this was some little bs i could easily solve, but i am getting into some problems. It's not easy to make it work.

if we run the same page from anywhere else, then it works.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

This error code is ERROR_INTERNET_CONNECTION_ABORTED. The most common reasons are a firewall or anti-virus interfering with the connection, a proxy borking the connection data. I can also be caused by a name resolution issue -- for example, if the host name resolves to 127.0.0.1 locally and the web server is bound to the public IP address only.