Winsock/ActiveX Dll problem in ASP

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I have written an ActiveX dll in VB that uses the Winsock.dll (I tried the mswinsck.ocx first but have the same problem). It is called MyPriceTcpApp.dll with a class called TCPIP.

I am trying to creating an object to use my code within ASP.

eg
<%
Dim lPrices
Dim lWinTcp

Set lWinTcp = Server.CreateObject(&quot;MyPriceTcpApp.TCPIP&quot
lWinTcp.Host = &quot;158.23.2.3&quot;
lWinTcp.Port = &quot;56595&quot;
lWinTcp.Command = &quot;GET PRICE FORDCAR&quot;
lWinTcp.Execute
lPrices = lWinTcp.GetData

Response.Write &quot;Price is &quot; & lPrices
Set lWinTcp = nothing
%>

My Asp app hangs when I perform the execute. I see the progress bar increase but nothing happens. The command isn't being sent to the pricesserver.

The MyPriceTcpApp works when I run the code in a VB test app and it works on the server when I run it as a .vbs file
So why should it hang as an ASP component? I thought it was a Winsock problem hence the rewrite from MSWINSCK.OCX to the native API calls in WINSOCK.DLL and a microsoft site said the OCX should not be used in IIS applications. But it works as a VBS script. So it cant be a winsock issue or can it?

I have registered the MyPriceTcpApp.dll on the server using REGSVR32 and I can see it in OLEVIEW.

My server is a Windows 2000 server running IIS.

If I can't get this working how else could I send a message and get a response from a port on a server into a webpage?

(The prices string/variant when it comes back from the dll is actually an XML string but I've simplified the example code.)