Re: wget from System i

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,

It performs the function of a "trigger" in the sense that you can call a 
program via HTTP.  So you'd do your FTP upload, then when you're done, 
you'd use WGET, HTTPAPI, GETURI, or another similar tool to run a 
program on the web server -- presumably this program would begin the 
process of loading those files that you just FTPed.

wget will run in PASE -- if you have adequate Unix knowledge, you should 
be able to get it to work.

HTTPAPI or GETURI are native RPG/CL applications and might be more 
intuitive to someone who is familiar with IBM i, but not with Unix.


Jeff Crosby wrote:
> If this is the wrong list, point me elsewhere.
>
> A contractor is doing a website product search for us (not live yet).  I am
> creating the search files on the System I and FTPing them to our godaddy
> website.  I have this working.
>
> The contractor says he needs a trigger of some sort to indicate the file
> uploads are complete.  He suggested wget.  I'd never heard of wget and what
> I read about it sure didn't sound like a 'trigger' but that's probably just
> me. :)
>
> The archives seem to suggest either geturi or httpapi can function as a
> wget.  Sound reasonable?  I'm still having brainlock on how a utility
> designed to copy webpages functions as a trigger, but as I said that's
> probably just me.
>
> Thanks.
>
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