David Heffler wrote:

> I am new to XML and I have run into a problem that I am hoping someone can 
> help me with.  I have created a program to load an XML document and post it 
> using ISP-8850-1 encoding.  The following is my code:
> 
> Dim request As String
> Dim xmldoc As New MSXML2.DOMDocument40
> Dim response As New MSXML2.DOMDocument40
> xmldoc.Load ("c:\uss\uss4.0\ups\licrequest.xml")
> Dim xmlhttp As New MSXML2.XMLHTTP40
> xmlhttp.open "POST", "https://www.ups.com/ups.app/xml/License", False
> xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Content-type", "text/xml;charset=ISO-8859-1;"
> xmlhttp.send (xmldoc.xml)
> request = xmlhttp.responseText
> MsgBox request
> 
> The document it is sending has the following code embedded into it. &#233  
> The provider is sending back a message that the document is sending invalid 
> text and that the code is being red as <c3><a9> instead of the acute accent 
> (é) encoded properly as <e9>

If you send a string (which you do with xmlhttp.send(xmldoc.xml)) then 
the string is always UTF-8 encoded.
General, if you want to send an XML DOM document then pass the document 
itself to the send method e.g.
   xmlhttp.send(xmldoc)
then there isn't even a need to set the Content-Type header yourself.


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