p. 59-60 Web Service Task

Geoff Wass · June 26th, 2016, 11:09 PM

On p. 59, step #2 instructs you to follow the example given on p. 56-59 for accessing US Zip code services through webservicex.net/uszip.asmx.

I was able to get part way through the instructions. I thought I did "The General Tab" on p,. 57 successfully. I then want to start on "The Input Tab" by clicking it, but it gives me an error:

Could not read the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file. The input WSDL file is not valid. The following error occurred while reading the file. There is an error in XML document (3, 2)..

I found the text for The General Tab confusing. It says "The property is required only if you don't provide the WSDL parameter in the Connection Manager." However, I don't see where to do that in the Connection Manager.

This lead me to conclude that I needed to give a file name and use the "Download WDSL" button. I did that.

The file it downloaded does not look like a WDSL file to me, but a HTML file. This looks to be the cause of the error message, but I don't understand why the WDSL button didn't fetch WDSL.

Have I done something wrong?

[By the way, I think that paragraph needs some work. It seems contradictory in regards what the presence of the parameter file means.]

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	USZip Web Service
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                <a href="uszip.asmx?op=GetInfoByAreaCode">GetInfoByAreaCode</a>
                
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                  <br>Get State Code,City,Area Code,Time Zone,Zip Code by Area Code
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                <a href="uszip.asmx?op=GetInfoByCity">GetInfoByCity</a>
                
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                  <br>Get State Code,City,Area Code,Time Zone,Zip Code by City
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                <a href="uszip.asmx?op=GetInfoByState">GetInfoByState</a>
                
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                  <br>Get State Code,City,Area Code,Time Zone,Zip Code by state
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                <a href="uszip.asmx?op=GetInfoByZIP">GetInfoByZIP</a>
                
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                  <br>Get State Code,City,Area Code,Time Zone,Zip Code by Zip Code
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