Having difficulty with search web service

gameboyhippo — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:36:57 GMT

I'm writing a search utility for a web app that is suppose to search sharepoint. So after doing a little research, I find out that there exist a web service called search.asmx that I can use to do my searching. Unfortunately, no matter what I try, I get the following response back from the SharePoint server:

<ResponsePacket xmlns="urn:Microsoft.Search.Response">
<Response domain="">
  <Status>ERROR_SERVER</Status>
  <DebugErrorMessage>System.ArgumentNullException</DebugErrorMessage>
</Response>
</ResponsePacket>

I have googled and I cannot find a single thing on this. Here is the code I'm using to develop my query:

1        string queryXML =
2                "<QueryPacket xmlns='urn:Microsoft.Search.Query'>" +
3                    "<Query>" +
4                        "<Context>" +
5                            "<QueryText language='en-us' type='MSSQLFT'>" +
6                                "SELECT Title, Path, Description, Write, Rank, Size from SCOPE()" +
7                            "</QueryText>" +
8                        "</Context>" +
9                    "</Query>" +
10               "</QueryPacket>";

I read that it might have something to do with the URL of my query service. So I set that explicitly and I'll get the following exception:

Server was unable to process request. ---> There is no Web named "/Shared Documents/_vti_bin/search.asmx".

Any clues?

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Having difficulty with search web service