(Classic ASP) Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB) Get Currencies

The Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB) is the central bank of Hungary. In this role, its primary objective is to achieve and maintain price stability. The MNB website is available to visitors in both Hungarian and English. The MNB provides the Arfolyam (trans. Exchange Rate) API, which can be used to retrieve current and historic currency exchange rates. This service uses SOAP calls issued in XML format.

This example gets a list of currencies.

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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<%
' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Rest")
set rest = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

' URL: http://www.mnb.hu/arfolyamok.asmx
bTls = 0
port = 80
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("www.mnb.hu",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "ConnectFailReason: " & rest.ConnectFailReason) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Also see Chilkat's Online WSDL Code Generator
' to generate code and SOAP Request and Response XML for each operation in a WSDL.
' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Xml")
set xml = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Xml")
xml.Tag = "soapenv:Envelope"
success = xml.AddAttribute("xmlns:soapenv","http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/")
success = xml.AddAttribute("xmlns:web","http://www.mnb.hu/webservices/")
xml.UpdateChildContent "soapenv:Header",""
xml.UpdateChildContent "soapenv:Body|web:GetCurrencies",""

success = rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","text/xml")
success = rest.AddHeader("SOAPAction","/webservices/MNBArfolyamServiceSoap/GetCurrencies")
success = rest.AddHeader("Accept","application/xml")

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder")
set sbRequestBody = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = xml.GetXmlSb(sbRequestBody)
' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder")
set sbResponseBody = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/arfolyamok.asmx",sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

respStatusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode
If (respStatusCode >= 400) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Response Status Code = " & respStatusCode) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Response Header:") & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.ResponseHeader) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Response Body:") & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( sbResponseBody.GetAsString()) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "response status code = " & respStatusCode) & "</pre>"

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Xml")
set xmlResponse = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Xml")
success = xmlResponse.LoadSb(sbResponseBody,1)
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( xmlResponse.GetXml()) & "</pre>"

' The XML response contains this:
' <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
' <s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
'     <s:Body>
'         <GetCurrenciesResponse xmlns="http://www.mnb.hu/webservices/" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
'             <GetCurrenciesResult>&lt;MNBCurrencies&gt;&lt;Currencies&gt;&lt;Curr&gt;HUF&lt;/Curr&gt;&lt;Curr&gt;EUR&lt;/Curr&gt;&lt;Curr&gt;AUD&lt;/Curr&gt; ... &lt;/MNBCurrencies&gt;</GetCurrenciesResult>
'         </GetCurrenciesResponse>
'     </s:Body>
' </s:Envelope>

' Get the GetCurrenciesResult
resultEncoded = xmlResponse.GetChildContent("s:Body|GetCurrenciesResponse|GetCurrenciesResult")
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( resultEncoded) & "</pre>"

' Entity decode the result to get XML.
' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder")
set sbResult = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sbResult.Append(resultEncoded)
success = sbResult.EntityDecode()

' Load it into XML.
' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Xml")
set xmlResult = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Xml")
success = xmlResult.LoadSb(sbResult,1)
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( xmlResult.GetXml()) & "</pre>"

' The result is this:

' <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
' <MNBCurrencies>
'     <Currencies>
'         <Curr>HUF</Curr>
'         <Curr>EUR</Curr>
'         <Curr>AUD</Curr>
'         <Curr>BGN</Curr>
'         <Curr>BRL</Curr>
'         <Curr>CAD</Curr>
'         <Curr>CHF</Curr>
'         <Curr>CNY</Curr>
'         <Curr>CZK</Curr>
'         <Curr>DKK</Curr>
'         <Curr>GBP</Curr>
'         <Curr>HKD</Curr>
'         <Curr>HRK</Curr>
'         <Curr>IDR</Curr>
'         <Curr>ILS</Curr>
'         <Curr>INR</Curr>
'         <Curr>ISK</Curr>
'         <Curr>JPY</Curr>
'         <Curr>KRW</Curr>
'         <Curr>MXN</Curr>
'         <Curr>MYR</Curr>
'         <Curr>NOK</Curr>
'         <Curr>NZD</Curr>
'         <Curr>PHP</Curr>
'         <Curr>PLN</Curr>
'         <Curr>RON</Curr>
'         <Curr>RSD</Curr>
'         <Curr>RUB</Curr>
'         <Curr>SEK</Curr>
'         <Curr>SGD</Curr>
'         <Curr>THB</Curr>
'         <Curr>TRY</Curr>
'         <Curr>UAH</Curr>
'         <Curr>USD</Curr>
'         <Curr>ZAR</Curr>
'         <Curr>ATS</Curr>
'         <Curr>AUP</Curr>
'         <Curr>BEF</Curr>
'         <Curr>BGL</Curr>
'         <Curr>CYN</Curr>
'         <Curr>CSD</Curr>
'         <Curr>CSK</Curr>
'         <Curr>DDM</Curr>
'         <Curr>DEM</Curr>
'         <Curr>EEK</Curr>
'         <Curr>EGP</Curr>
'         <Curr>ESP</Curr>
'         <Curr>FIM</Curr>
'         <Curr>FRF</Curr>
'         <Curr>GHP</Curr>
'         <Curr>GRD</Curr>
'         <Curr>IEP</Curr>
'         <Curr>ITL</Curr>
'         <Curr>KPW</Curr>
'         <Curr>KWD</Curr>
'         <Curr>LBP</Curr>
'         <Curr>LTL</Curr>
'         <Curr>LUF</Curr>
'         <Curr>LVL</Curr>
'         <Curr>MNT</Curr>
'         <Curr>NLG</Curr>
'         <Curr>OAL</Curr>
'         <Curr>OBL</Curr>
'         <Curr>OFR</Curr>
'         <Curr>ORB</Curr>
'         <Curr>PKR</Curr>
'         <Curr>PTE</Curr>
'         <Curr>ROL</Curr>
'         <Curr>SDP</Curr>
'         <Curr>SIT</Curr>
'         <Curr>SKK</Curr>
'         <Curr>SUR</Curr>
'         <Curr>VND</Curr>
'         <Curr>XEU</Curr>
'         <Curr>XTR</Curr>
'         <Curr>YUD</Curr>
'     </Currencies>
' </MNBCurrencies>
' 

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