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Calling web services from Filemaker 8.5

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Hi,

 

I am using Filemaker 8.5 advanced and in my Filemaker application I have implement payment system using web service calls.
I have no clue as to how to initialize an instance, Exchange public keys to obtain a token and with that token , I have to charge the credit card making web service calls.

Is there any plug-in for web services? I looked at the URL one from Troi, but not sure if that works for web service calls.

http://www.beezwax.net/products/wsp is for filemaker 9 and above, but is not supported anymore.

 

 

If this feature is available in newer versions of Filemaker, It might a while to upgrade the softwares but this payment system has to be implemented in a month or two.

 

Please help!

Thanks

I've been interacting with a web service using custom functions to generate the xml request, available here: https://github.com/dansmith65/fmpstandards/commit/565ef7fd410c378899d7bb30ba17511ec5924e61

 

I use ScriptMaster to send the request using the PostXMLData included in the download.

 

The I use my own XPath Parse With Namespace module in ScriptMaster to parse the response.

 

The Web Services Plug-in would be much easier to use, but it's discontinued and does not officially support your version of FileMaker.

It all depends on the web service itself. If it requires a POST request, or if the protocol is https, you will need a plugin or some form of third party assistance, e.g. AppleScript (this might no longer be true for version 13, though)..

 

You might want to check out the BaseElements plugin: it's free and it doesn't require you to learn Java.

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