Re: Httpapi and tinyurl

Hello,

I'm really amazed that you're getting back anything..? Your code doesn't make any sense.

You are appending ?url= to the URL of the site you're connecting to. This normally would be done in order to encode data supplied to a program via the HTTP GET method, since there's no other way to transmit data in HTTP GET.

But, then you're sending the actual URL that you want to encode in POST data! Huh? That makes no sense.

If the API supports post, then the whole thing (url=whatever) should be in the POST data. If not, you should be using the GET method and sending the whole request in the URL, as is normal with the GET method.

Plus, you aren't URL encoding any of it. Won't that wreck havoc as soon as you hit the first & character in the URL?



On 6/15/2011 3:26 PM, Smith, Mike wrote:

I have a project where I need to call a url(that accesses our document
management system) from within an RPG program.

I have experimented with building a .bat file before but I don't like
that solution, so I thought about using TINYURL to return a shorter link
that I can call.

So do to that I thought I would use Scotts HTTPAPI stuff.

I have this mostly working, but I'm not getting the correct link back
from tinyurl.

So I have this
'http://rgc-filenexus/FileNexus/BrowserClient/directlink.aspx?fid=58&cid
=32&iid=23&iv=100377101'

I expect to get back this from TinyUrl
http://tinyurl.com/3ohj5m4

Instead I'm getting
http://tinyurl.com/3o7lzto

Which translates to this

'http://rgc-filenexus/FileNexus/BrowserClient/directlink.aspx?fid=58'

I have been through the program and I don't see anywhere where I'm
truncating anything. Any idea why this is happening?


Basics of the code are below

C Eval URL = 'http://rgc-filenexus/FileNexus/+
C BrowserClient/directlink.aspx?+
C fid=58&cid=32&iid=23&iv=100377101'

C** The only diff between using HTTPwserClientg HTTP is
C** the URL that we pass. It starts with 'https://'
C Eval PostURL = 'http://tinyurl.com/api-+
C create.php?url='
C Eval PostData = URL
C
C callp HTTP_SetFileCCSID(819)
C Eval rc = http_url_post(%trim(PostURL) +
C %trim(postdata)
C : mypointer
C : %len(PostData)
C : logfile
C : HTTP_TIMEOUT
C : HTTP_USERAGENT)