RE: Help with long URL from RPG

Mike
Thanks for the response. I'm not really sure that this is an option at
this point. We do have zend installed on our development machine, but
not on our production machine. We have not done a whole lot with zend
and php, so I'm not sure we will go down that road right now(though I'm
getting more apt to try by the minute)

I did come across this thread
http://forums.systeminetwork.com/isnetforums/showthread.php?t=45747
Scott K. talks about using carets to get by the problem with the & in
the dos batch file.
I copied what he used and it works, however I have an extra parm(you
wouldn't think it would be this difficult to figure out) and can't
figure out the proper use of the ^ for all parms. .

Scott, if you see this, could you explain how to determine the number of
^ for each parm. Or point me somewhere I can read about this. It seems
simple, I'm just not hitting the correct combination.

Thanks

Mike

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 9:48 AM
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Subject: 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=nas125cbd3c71c3cafd08625
72d700525c13
)
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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