RE: Is it possible to retrieve the webpage content in a program ?

["John Brandt Sr." <pgmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try Brad Stone's GETURI utility. I think it's about 250 USD. You can find it
at:
http://www.bvstools.com/geturi.html
If you don't want to pay for a utility, there are some source examples
either at Search400.com or iSeriesNetwork.com that will allow you to
retrieve web pages in an RPGLE program.
If you can't find them, e-mail me directly and I will send you some of my
old source that does it. I don't remember if I have any that handles SSL,
but at least this will get you started.
John Brandt
iStudio400.com
(pgmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)



-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Spirinckx [mailto:Chris3.Spirinckx@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 3:11 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Is it possible to retrieve the webpage content in a program ?




Greetings All,


One of our core businesses is the ability of our customers to place orders
on
the AS400 via internet.

I'm in the middle of creating a program that allows our AS400-operator to
check
if everything is up and running and if necessary point out where there are
possible problems.

In a nutshell, the following is involved in the process :
1) An AS400-subsystem where specific jobs have to be active
2) Integrated Netfinity-card with mandatory Services and programs running
3) An external Webserver where the customer needs to logon before they get a
webpage where they can order/inquire our articles.

Checking this external Webserver is the missing link at this moment.

In order to check the whole process I need to :
1)Check if the start-page can be reached (http).
2)Check if the logon-page can be reached (https)
3)Enter a user and password (https)
4)Check if I get the order/inquiry page returned (https)
5)Logout

It's not the purpose of displaying these webpages in the program, 
just to investigate the returned content.

Is this possible from within a (RPG-)program ?

BTW, we're still using V4R5.



Any suggestions are more than welcome.



TIA,

Chris


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