Re: Help with long URL from RPG

Could you use an internal URL shortener to first shorten the URL then pass
it? I have been using YOURLS (http://yourls.org/) for a bit now and you can
create shortened URLs via their API. It is all PHP and AJAX, so it should
run just fine in Zend.

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On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Smith, Mike <Mike_Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

I have a situation where I need to display a webpage from within a rpg
program. The idea is to simply have a command key to active this.
I've done this before, but the problem I'm running into with this webpage
is length of the URL.
STRPCCMD is limited to I think 123 characters. I well past that.
I found a possible solution that looks something like this(taken from
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas125cbd3c71c3cafd0862572d700525c13
)
STRPCCMD PCCMD('del c:\temp\url.bat')
STRPCCMD PCCMD('cmd /c echo set first=
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/cl/strpccmd.htm?

c:\temp\url.bat')

STRPCCMD PCCMD('cmd /c echo set
last=resultof=%22%73%74%72%70%63%63%6d%64%22%20 >> c:\temp\url.bat')
STRPCCMD PCCMD('cmd /c echo "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
%first%%last% >> c:\temp\url.bat')
STRPCCMD PCCMD('start c:\temp\url.bat')


I thought this would be the answer, but apparently there is an issue here
also. When I try to 'set last' with this
cmd /c echo set last=?Action=login&UserName=mike

It doesn't like the &UserName. There are actually more parameters in this
string, I just included the first 2.

Can anyone suggest a way around this or another method to display the
webpage when the URL is long?

Thanks

Mike



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