consuming a .net web service with C++ 6.0

Maybe http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsoap/html/understandsoap.asp ("Understanding SOAP") or http://www.microsoft.com/mind/0100/soap/soap.asp ("SOAP: The Simple Object Access Protocol") is a good point to start.

Sorry , wasnt clear.
Issue is how to consume these .net services from a vc++ 6.0 (unmanaged code) client.
I am not a C++ but rather a .net developer and I am trying to facillitate (read convince) a contractor I work with to consume my .net web service rather than relying on our current architecture for data transfer.

instead of writing your own webservices layer on the client side using SOAP,HTTP etc.,

my suggestion is...

u just develop a .Net component wrapper for your webservice.
create a CCW for your .Net component and use it in your client application..

by doing this, u are making reuse of the .Net webservices architecture. you need not write your own coding for webservices layer right?

you shall take this, if you are not very much concerned about the performance..(very much !!)
but this would be an easy solution for your problem.

My lack of c++ may be hindering me here but I simply need to know how a remote C++ 6.0 client can call a .net webservice which can respond to either SOAP,GET,or POST (BTW, this will be an https URL for the webservice). All I really need is a good article I can pass to our C++ developer that will  either (1) allow me to write a simple C++ app so as to shame him into using my webservice or (2) get him started on the correct path by showing him it is possible.

Thanks, and forgive my lack of Knowledge regarding the client side of calling webservices , especially from VC++6.0