Load a QVW from web services?

[Anonymous]

Hi!  I am trying to access a web services site in order to bring data into QV desktop.  I go into my QV load script, indicate that I want to bring data from a web file and put in the web address.  QV comes back with "Internet Error: 12038". 

The web address is an HTTPS address and, when I access it through a web browser I'm told that there is a problem with the site's certificate.  I tell the brower to ignore the error and the data comes back to me.  Is this related to why I can't get my data into QV?  How do I get around this issue?

I'm using QV Desktop version 10

Thanks in advance for your help.

-- Ben

[Anonymous]

Anyone?  Bueller?  Bueller?

[#3]

Ben,

Check out this document and see if it helps:  How to call a WebService to pull some data into the QV application

[Anonymous]

Hi, Jason.  Thanks for the link.  I already looked into this one and it appears more focused on how to call a WebService from within the QV user interface.  I couldn't see how to apply it to calling WebServices from within the load script.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Just wanted to give an update in case it helps others in the future.  The web address of the web service I was calling was https://api.hurtfulsite.com/...  The site would then translate this (not sure of the correct technical terminology here) to https://www.hurtfulsite.com/...  It turns out that, to make the script work, all I had to do was call the www directly rather than the api.  Everything's working now.

-- Ben

[arieidel]

So... How is the script that you used to accomplish the data loading from a Web Service?