Hi:) ..I hv a application that calls a XML file from server something like this..

Private Sub Command1_Click()
     xmlDoc.Load "http://www.abcdef.com:7001/...."
End Sub

Problem is that I wanna run this command in sync mode ..when this command tries to find the url and url is not there or server is down ..the application get hanged..
What to do with problem ??


Atin

Before using the load statement, you could try a dummy 'push' to the address using something like:
set xmlHttp = server.CreateObject("MSXML2.xmlHttp")
    xmlHttp.Open "POST", "http://youraddress", False
    xmlHttp.setRequestHeader "Content-type", "application/xml"
    xmlHttp.send "MyDummyXML"
    retval = xmlHttp.Status
if retval = 200 then all is ok else it couldn't do it.
so if 200 then perform xmlDoc.load