Re: Doing a HTTP Post from rpg program

Yes, you're right.  And passing parms is probably what the
original mailer needed to do anyhow.  For example, if he had
an IIS server running a tax table system, he'd had to pass
information to it to get the numbers he wants.

Retrieving static information would be pretty useless.  It
would be like calling a program that always returns "CARL".
:)

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 23:59:17 +0200
 "Joep Beckeringh" <joep@beckeringh.myweb.nl> wrote:
> Brad,
>
> What I meant was that I can see the use of a program,
> like a web crawler,
> making GET requests to retrieve static pages.  But when
> you make POST
> requests, or GET requests with parameters, you are
> effectively communicating
> with a program on the server, aren't you?  That implies
> that you have to
> know which parameters that program is expecting; or in
> other words, you have
> define an interface between the two programs.  And that
> is what made me
> think of APPC (I always wondered how anyone could call
> something like that
> 'advanced').
>
> Joep Beckeringh
>