March 25, 2002 - Playing with the StockQuote Web Service

Yehuda Shiran March 25, 2002
Playing with the StockQuote Web Service
Tips: March 2002

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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In this tip we demo the StockQuote Web service, which uses the webservice DHTML behavior. The Web service returns an XML object which we transform to HTML with an XSL file. Try it now. After the page loads, click the Get Quotes button and then wait patiently for a few seconds until a table shows up with the stock quote details of YHOO, IBM, and MSFT. This Web services example works only in IE5.5 and up.

To get this page to work from our server, you need to enable the access data sources across domains option. First, invoke Internet Options from the browser's Tools menu. Select the Security tab and the Internet icon in the top window. Click the Custom Level button. Go to Miscellaneous->Access data sources across domains, and select Enable or Prompt. You need to enable this access because the page on our server is communicating with the Web service StockQuote in a different domain (eggheadcafe).

Learn more about the StockQuote Web service from Column 105, Web Services, Part X: Consuming the StockQuote.