On Oct 2, 2:15 pm, "Anthony Jones" <A...@yadayadayada.com> wrote:
> <ricky.bl...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> > I didn't find a clear solution to this error in any posts, so here it
> > is FYI...hope it saves the reader some headaches!
>
> > Problem:
> > Server-to-server XML using the XMLHTTP object requesting XML from a
> > secure SSL (HTTPS) page, throws error 800c0008 (-2148270088) and the
> > message: "The download of the specified resource has failed."
>
> > Solution:
> > Use the "Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP" object instead of the regular "XMLHTTP"
> > object. For some reason the regular object works server-to-server over
> > HTTP, but when using HTTPS, only the ServerXMLHTTP object will work.
>
> > Reason, according to MSDN:
> > "The only supported method for making HTTP requests from server-side
> > ASP script is if you use ServerXMLHTTP object (MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP)
> > that is provided with XML 3.0 or later." (http://support.microsoft.com/
> > kb/237906)
>
> > See the ServerXMLHTTP Reference here:
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms754586.aspx
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> > Note: If the XML you are requesting has an XML declaration, make sure
> > that declaration is the first thing in the response (i.e. no empty
> > lines before it), otherwise ServerXMLHTTP will be not be able to
> > populate "responseXML" (but it will be able to populate
> > "responseText").
>
> ResponseXML will have a parseError.  Strictly speaking the xml specification
> indicates that the declaration should not be preceeded by anything and that
> includes whitespace.  Older implementations of msxml (pre version 3) were
> more permissive and allowed whitespace before the declare.
>
> With MSXML DOM instances created using progIDs such as Microsoft.XMLDOM and
> MSXML2.DOMDocument or their CLSID equivalents implement a Load method that
> is tolerant of the whitespace.  Using the more specific ProgID
> MSXML3.DOMDocument.3.0 would result in a DOM instance whose load method
> would apply the XML standard more strictly.  It is an instance of this DOM
> that ServerXMLHTTP exposes.
>
> It should also be noted that a server sending XML content to be loaded in
> this way must specify the content-type as an xml type such as "text/xml".
> If not ServerXMLHTTP won't even attempt to load the DOM.
>
> --
> Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET- Hide quoted text -
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I was also getting the same error when I was using "Microsoft.XMLDOM"
object. It was not able to work over the SSL. Then based on the
solution suggested here I tried to create the object of
"Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP.3.0". But IE 7 did not allow me to create the
object of this ActiveX control due to security constraint, though I
had marked my site as trusted site.

Then I poked inside https://mail.google.com. They were able to happily
live with Msxml2.XmlHTTP object over the SSL layer. I decided to give
it a try and it started working. So guys FYI, Msxml2.XMLHTTP works
over SSL. I am using it successfully.