Re: Httpapi and tinyurl

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I'm really amazed that you're getting back anything..?  Your code 
doesn't make any sense.

You are appending ?url= to the URL of the site you're connecting to. 
This normally would be done in order to encode data supplied to a 
program via the HTTP GET method, since there's no other way to transmit 
data in HTTP GET.

But, then you're sending the actual URL that you want to encode in POST 
data!  Huh?  That makes no sense.

If the API supports post, then the whole thing (url=whatever) should be 
in the POST data. If not, you should be using the GET method and sending 
the whole request in the URL, as is normal with the GET method.

Plus, you aren't URL encoding any of it.  Won't that wreck havoc as soon 
as you hit the first & character in the URL?



On 6/15/2011 3:26 PM, Smith, Mike wrote:
> I have a project where I need to call a url(that accesses our document
> management system) from within an RPG program.
>
> I have experimented with building a .bat file before but I don't like
> that solution, so I thought about using TINYURL to return a shorter link
> that I can call.
>
> So do to that I thought I would use Scotts HTTPAPI stuff.
>
> I have this mostly working, but I'm not getting the correct link back
> from tinyurl.
>
> So I have this
> 'http://rgc-filenexus/FileNexus/BrowserClient/directlink.aspx?fid=58&cid
> =32&iid=23&iv=100377101'
>
> I expect to get back this from TinyUrl
> http://tinyurl.com/3ohj5m4
>
> Instead I'm getting
> http://tinyurl.com/3o7lzto
>
> Which translates to this
>
> 'http://rgc-filenexus/FileNexus/BrowserClient/directlink.aspx?fid=58'
>
> I have been through the program and I don't see anywhere where I'm
> truncating anything.    Any idea why this is happening?
>
>
> Basics of the code are below
>
>   C                   Eval      URL = 'http://rgc-filenexus/FileNexus/+
>   C                             BrowserClient/directlink.aspx?+
>   C                             fid=58&cid=32&iid=23&iv=100377101'
>
>   C**  The only diff between using HTTPwserClientg HTTP is
>   C**  the URL that we pass.  It starts with 'https://'
>   C                   Eval      PostURL  = 'http://tinyurl.com/api-+
>   C                                         create.php?url='
>   C                   Eval      PostData = URL
>   C
>   C                   callp      HTTP_SetFileCCSID(819)
>   C                   Eval      rc = http_url_post(%trim(PostURL) +
>   C                                    %trim(postdata)
>   C                                    : mypointer
>   C                                    : %len(PostData)
>   C                                    : logfile
>   C                                    : HTTP_TIMEOUT
>   C                                    : HTTP_USERAGENT)