Re: IBM ACS "Feature" In case you can't connect

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,

I know what you mean.  I had a customer who was sending data to a trading
partner just a couple days ago.  They had a space at the end of the data.
Even though the content-length was correct, they said that you CANNOT have
a blank at the end.

Maybe we're spoiled with %trimx() lol.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> FYI I have run into several products where a space after a user name, DNS
> name, or IP address causes havoc.  This feature is not restricted to IBM.
>
> HEY all you programmers out there, IGNORE trailing blanks.  (OK preaching
> to the choir but I feel better now.)
>
> --
> Chris Bipes
> Director of Information Services
> CrossCheck, Inc.
>
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> Subject: Re: IBM ACS "Feature" In case you can't connect
>
> Thanks, Rob.  I'm familiar.  I rant often about not using IPs (or host
> table entries) and instead to use DNS and host names, but that's more for
> web services, email servers, etc. that are on the intra/inter-web.
>
> http://www.fieldexit.com/forum/display?threadid=65
>
> I would guess 3 out of 4 IBM i machines I work on do not have DNS servers
> specified.  2 of 4 will ping something (like smtp.office365.com) from
> their
> PC and create a host table entry on the i for the one IP address that
> happens to get returned.  *shudder*.
>
> In this case they are internal IPs for machines that I'm working with a
> VPN.  I doubt many customers set up their telnet IPs in a DNS. But I can
> bet some actually do.
>
> Maybe I'll test if a space after a hostname also causes this issue.  ;)
>
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