Well, I've just wasted about 2 days trying to track down a very strange COM bug (trap) with kixtart, kixforms and winhttp ... I thought it was something to do with WinHTTP and KiXforms not playing together nicely ... so i hacked and shaved at my code trying to narrow down the failure ... but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't pin-point the problem. Then I tried to reproduce it with WinHTTP and some other COM object - so I used ADSI and was successfull. After all is said and done, I suspect that it's either a winhhtp bug or a kixtart bug.

The following script reproduces the trap. The trap only occurs if you specify a bad url in the HTTP get method. The strange thing is - is that if you play with the code, different permutations will no cause the trap. For example, this causes a trap (can you verify for me?):

break on

$user = getobject("WinNT://@LDOMAIN/@USERID,user")

$user.getinfo()

$http = createobject("winhttp.winhttprequest.5")

if @error = 0

 $http.open("GET","xxx")

endif

exit 1

Now, here's a good one. Simply remove the if wrapper around winhttp and it runs fine (even with a bad url) !

break on

$user = getobject("WinNT://@LDOMAIN/@USERID,user")

$user.getinfo()

$http = createobject("winhttp.winhttprequest.5")

; if @error = 0

 $http.open("GET","xxx")

; endif

exit 1

Oh yeah, it gets better. put everything back, comment out the first ADSI getinfo method, and everything works again ...

break on

$user = getobject("WinNT://@LDOMAIN/@USERID,user")

; $user.getinfo()

$http = createobject("winhttp.winhttprequest.5")

if @error = 0

 $http.open("GET","xxx")

endif

exit 1

I'm about ready to pull my all my hair out because i wasted so much time trying to track this problem in kixforms. Would like to know if you've seen this weird behavior with winhttp yet ? And if you think it's a winhttp problem or a kixtart one (i think it's a kixtart bug myself, or kixtart not handling some kind of winhttp COM exception properly. i really don't know. I think this mostly because if you remove the IF statements and the error check, everything works fine.

Regards,

Baldy

[ 07 February 2002: Message edited by: Shawn ]