I have been struggling for 4 days to write a connection to an XML REST API. I can't figure out what is wrong with my code that it won't connect propertly. The goal is to make a web service that connects directly to the REST API. When I code it as a front end doing a form post it works fine, but I can't code the VB on the backend to do the same thing.

Any help would be much appreciated. Also, how do you convert the contents of a...