Re: TCP monitor/trace - what am I doing wrong?

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

check out the formatting options on the PRTCMNTRC command. I think you need
to format TCP/IP data.

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Alfredo Delgado <
adelgado@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am communicating with a non-traditional web service and am running into
> some issues.  I say "non-traditional" because they aren't using HTTP or
> valid XML streams for this web service and instead are simply offering up a
> "raw socket server" along with some other idiosyncrasies.
>
> Anyways, we are able to send data successfully to the server because they
> can see it in their logs, but we aren't getting the response back from the
> server despite the hosting party saying that some *is* in fact being sent
> in
> the response.  This has lead me down the path of setting up some TCP
> monitoring mechanisms and also where I am running into a hurdle.  I have
> used TRCCNN and STRCMNTRC in the past (I believe) but I am not getting the
> expected results.  I am doing these commands on our dev box and
> communicating with an HTTP server that I know *is* working.  I would expect
> to see the raw text data (i.e. HTTP headers) and such for the both the
> request and response in the resulting spool files but I don't see that
> anywhere in the resulting spool files.  Can anybody see where I may have
> gone wrong with how I am using these commands?
>
> Using STRCMNTRC:
> 1) STRCMNTRC CFGOBJ(ETH) CFGTYPE(*LIN) CMNTRCOPTS(*RMTIPADR) RMTIPADR('
> 76.12.52.57')
> 2) ....run my test communication with a remote HTTP server with a
> successful
> response....
> 3) ENDCMNTRC CFGOBJ(ETHLIN01) CFGTYPE(*LIN)
> 4) PRTCMNTRC CFGOBJ(ETHLIN01) CFGTYPE(*LIN)
> 5) DLTCMNTRC CFGOBJ(ETHLIN01) CFGTYPE(*LIN)
>
> Resulting spool file: http://mowyourlawn.com/temp/STRCMNTRC_QPCSMPRT.txt
>
> Using TRCCNN:
> 1) TRCCNN SET(*ON) TRCTYPE(*IP) TCPDTA(*TCP () () *N '76.12.52.57')
> 2) ....run my test communication with a remote HTTP server with a
> successful
> response....
> 3) TRCCNN *OFF
>
> Resulting spool files:
> http://mowyourlawn.com/temp/TRCCNN_QSYSPRT.txt
> http://mowyourlawn.com/temp/TRCCNN_QPCSMPRT.txt
>
>
> Anybody?
> Aaron Bartell
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