web service call returns html

Question

I am calling web services from within Microsoft Access and getting html that looks like

"

<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" href="pfp.asmx?disco"/>

<style type="text/css">

 BODY { color: #000000; background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; }
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Previously this has happened when calling a web service over https and I assumed just calling http would sort this out. It didn't, now Microsoft Access crashes with an out of memory exception. (I have checked and SSL certificate's is find and not expired)

I've tried again and it now works (frustrating!).

Calling the web service from .Net works almost always.

Thanks

Answer 1

Generally in web services, you get HTML back when the server returns a fault like error 500 or 404. The reason is that the server returns a page with the error details. Is the above the whole text that you get back from the server, or was there an error pasting to StackOverflow??