Re: Behind The Button -- Socket File Transfer -- MIDRANGE-L

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> I'm new to Sockets.  I've been reading Scott's tutorial and the Sorcerer's
> Guide so I know enough to be dangerous.  I've got a file that I want to
> transmit from our iSeries to a Web-hosted system.  A browser displays the
> web page as a box where you can enter the name of the file on your PC to
> upload and then a button to upload it.  How do I emulate the file transfer
> that the button does with sockets?

Can you post the HTML code for this button?  I'm not exactly sure what
you're referring to.

At any rate, you'd probably be better off with HTTPAPI rather than writing
your own sockets programs.

http://www.scottklement.com/httpapi/



> Currently the data to be transmitted is in a DB2 file.  It would be nice to
> be able to open a connection that creates a file on their system and then
> just reads and writes one record at a time.  If it facilitates the transfer
> I could write it out to the IFS for something like a FTP "put".  I'm open
> to suggestion.

If that's what you're after, why are you trying to do this with HTTP?

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