Trouble accessing web service
Posted on: Tue, 09/23/2008 - 13:03
OfflineI am trying out OpenCalais and am having real trouble getting it to work. I'm in a windows environment using VB.net. I am simply adding a web reference to this address http://api.opencalais.com/enlighten/calais.asmx in VS2008. When ever I try to execute the enlighten method I get a "The request failed with HTTP status 403: Forbidden." error. Connecting to other remote web services in this way does not prove a problem. If I navigate to the address listed above using my web browser I can view the Enlighten method link as expected. If I try and execute the enlighten method using the ws browser invocation form i get a "Invalid request format - the request has missing or invalid parameters" error. I have tried many different methods with no success.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
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Hi tim (I'm guessing that's your first name...),
You are probably using an invalid licenseID:
403 is returned when the licenseID is illegal.
The same happens when you use the browser: invalid license, but here there is a different between firefox and IE:
IE properly reports 403, while FF says "Invalid request format..." .
Please double/triple check your license code to make sure no char was mistakenly removed/added.
If you are still having problems, please post here again, and we'll take it from there.
(DONT POST YOUR licenseID HERE!)
Meir