RE: AS/400 program to retrieve a URL?

[Tim McCarthy <TimM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not all URLS can be accessed this simply. There are differences to take
into account depending on whether you're connecting directly or through
a proxy server, whether the URL access is via GET, PUT or HEAD and if
parameters are required and whether a MIME body is needed. You may need
to identify your user agent, the proxy connection state, caching and so
on. And on top of this you may need to return a cookie. The returned URL
could be encoded as well so you may have to decode it before it's
useful. etc etc 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amit.Mukherjee@smed.com [SMTP:Amit.Mukherjee@smed.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 7:42 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: AS/400 program to retrieve a URL?
> 
> 
> 
> This can be done using a socket program to first establish connection
> with
> the http server (www.xyzcompany.com) at port # 80 (generally that is
> the
> port http servers use) . Then send the GET http request
> (GET http://www.xyz.com/index.html) to retrive the web page . I have a
> RPGLE program which does exactly that .
> 
> -Amit
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> David Gibbs <David.Gibbs@IL.US.MKS.com> on 08/05/99 02:37:17 PM
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> Subject:  AS/400 program to retrieve a URL?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Folks:
> 
> Does anyone know of a AS/400 program that will retrieve a web page
> from a
> web server based on the URL?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> david
> 
> 
> --
> 
> David Gibbs
> Sr. Software Engineer
> Mortice Kern Systems US, Inc.
> 2500 S. Highland Ave., Suite 200
> Lombard, IL  60148
> 
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