I didn't dig very far but it seems Firefox's issue is that doesn't know
what to do w/ a ".dll" file.

I downloaded the response, changed the extension to .xml and Firefox
opened it formatted as XML, complaining, "This XML file does not appear
to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is
shown below."

Just for fun, I added a prolog declaring the document as XML (<?xml
version = "1.0"?>). Then I changed the extension back to .dll and tried
to Open the File in Firefox. It still didn't know how to handle it,
asking to download it again.

So in this case the issue is with the client.

>From working w/ web services, I'd not expect to display this in a web
browser. I'd save it to the filesystem and parse, etc it from there.

Just because IE displays it w/o complaining doesn't mean it's typical
and expected practice.

I deleted your original question, Nevin, so I'm not sure what you're
trying to do. But I'd suggest it's not the GET mechanism that's the
problem, it's the handling of the response.

Bob

Nevin Pratt wrote:
> Yanni Chiu wrote:
> 
>> Nevin Pratt wrote:
>>
>>> http://testing.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPITest.dll?API=Verify&XML=<AddressValidateRequest
>>>  ><Address ID="0"><Address1></Address1><Address2>6406 Ivy
>>> Lane</Address2><City>Greenbelt</City><State>MD</State><Zip5></Zip5><Zip4></Zip4></Address></AddressValidateRequest>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Yesterday, I tried this URL in Firefox running on XP Home.
>> It kept coming back with a dialog to save or open
>> "ShippingAPITest.dll". I chose not to save it,
>> and assumed that maybe someone else would have
>> an answer for you. Anyhow, is it possible that
>> you have this .dll already on your system, but
>> Squeak has no way to make use of it?
>>
> 
> No.
> 
> Save it.  It is a text file.  Look at the text.  That is the response
> text, in the file that you are saving.
> 
> I don't understand web protocols well enough to know why the response is
> coming back via a file named "ShippingAPIText.dll".  But, the file
> actually contains the text response that I am looking for.
> 
> How do I get Squeak to do this?
> 
> Thanks, Yanni!
> 
> Nevin
> 
>