Pretty simple XML fetching question

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From: PBR (paul_at_thesak.com)
Date: 04/06/04 

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 12:12:59 -0700

Hi,

I am trying to do the following with BTS 2002:

1. Pull an XML file down from an IIS machine running SQLXML and exposing the
XML via HTTP
2. Use the BTS adapter for FTP to send that file to a trading partner.

I think I can do #2, piece of cake. For some reason, I can't get my head
around performing step #1. I looked into Receive Functions, but it looks
like the HTTP transport is only usable for documents being POSTed to
BizTalk. I need to GET the XML file via HTTP from a remote web server. I
imagine this must be built into BTS 2002, I just can't find where I would do
this. I hope it's not in Orchestration, because I haven't played with that
much yet.

If it's not built in, what would you recommend I do? I am mainly a C# and
SQL Server programmer, so I could easily make something to pull down the XML
with a batch command line app, but I really want to stick to the native
functions of BTS as much as possible.

Thanks in advance for your advice,

Paul

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