Re: HTTPAPI Error - 13 HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted - Attempting to post

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry about that -- I'll reply on the scottklement.com site.


On 9/20/2021 6:26 PM, Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
> I originally posted this on the new skottent.com forum but have had no
> replies in a week so I am re-posting here.
>
> Since then I have tried changing the CCSID of the syslog.txt file that
> contains the log entry to 1208 but no difference. I have also played with
> the format of the file removing the single quotes, trying double quotes
> etcetera but the same response is always received.
>
> I am trying to post an entry to a GreyLog syslog server.
>
> I can successfully post a log using curl from a strqsh session - see
> example below.
>
> But when I try using the HTTPAPI Command it fails which I was using for a
> quick test and perhaps is a limitation of the command ??
>
> This works
> The following commands are run before starting qsh
> ADDENVVAR ENVVAR(QIBM_QSH_CMD_ESCAPE_MSG) VALUE(Y)
> ADDENVVAR ENVVAR(QIBM_MULTI_THREADED) VALUE(Y)
> strqsh
> /QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{
> "version": "1.1", "host": "example.org", "short_message
> ": "Testing from QSH using Curl", "level": 5, "_some_info": "foo" }' '
> http://Bnelog1.xxxxxx.local:12201/gelf'
> $
> The $ tells me no error was detected and the entry does appear in the
> syslog server
>
> But using HTTPAPI Command no entry is received in the syslog server
>
> HTTPAPI URL('http://Bnelog1.xxxxxx.local:12201/gelf')
> DOWNLOAD('/home/msd/result.txt')
> REQTYPE(*POST) UPLOAD('/home/msd/syslog.txt') TYPE('application/json')
> DEBUG('/home/msd/debug.txt')
>
> 13 HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
>
> The syslog.txt contains
> ************Beginning of data**************
> '{ "short_message": "This is a short message", "full_message":"This is th
> efull message ", "host":"Hostname", "version":"Version
> ", "timestamp": "1629332852.490", "level": "01" }'
> ************End of Data********************
>
> The result.txt is empty
>
> The debug.txt contains
> ************Beginning of data**************
> HTTPAPI Ver 1.42 released 2020-10-12
> NTLM Ver 1.4.0 released 2014-12-22
> OS/400 Ver V7R3M0
>
> New iconv() objects set, PostRem=819. PostLoc=0. ProtRem=819. ProtLoc=0
> http_persist_open(): entered
> http_long_ParseURL(): entered
> DNS resolver retrans: 2
> DNS resolver retry : 2
> DNS resolver options: x'00000136'
> DNS default domain: XXXXX.LOCAL
> DNS server found: 192.168.126.2
> DNS server found: 192.168.126.3
> DNS server found: 10.100.0.210
> Nagle's algorithm (TCP_NODELAY) disabled.
> http_persist_post(): entered
> http_persist_req(POST) entered.
> http_long_ParseURL(): entered
> http_long_ParseURL(): entered
> do_oper(POST): entered
> There are 0 cookies in the cache
> POST /gelf HTTP/1.1
> Host: Bnelog1.xxxxx.local:12201
> User-Agent: http-api/1.43
> Content-Type: application/json
> Content-Length: 182
>
>
> sendraw(): entered
> '{ "short_message": "This is a short message", "full_message":"This is th
> efull message ", "host":"Hostname", "version":"Version", "timestamp":
> "1629332852.490", "level": "01" }'
> recvresp(): entered
> HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
> content-length: 0
> connection: keep-alive
>
> SetError() #13: HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
> recvresp(): end with 202
> recvdoc parms: identity 0
> header_load_cookies() entered
> recvdoc(): entered
> SetError() #0:
> recvdoc(): Receiving 0 bytes.
> recvdoc(): Nothing to receive, exiting...
> SetError() #13: HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
> http_close(): entered
> ************End of Data********************
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
>
>
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