Re: http_url_get issue

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are you up to date on HTTPAPI version?


On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 10:47 AM K Crawford <kscx3ksc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a program that is using http_url_get (it has been for several
> years).  It is now working sometimes (quick estimate is 60% of the time).
> Note that it started acting up about a week after I put new PTF's (20128))
> TR7 on.  For that week it was working fine.
> When I look at the return code of http_url_get the fails return -1.  My
> research tells me that it is an 'internal error' failure.  When I look at
> the http_error() it is empty.
> When it is a successful run my target JSON file has good data.  When it
> fails it is empty.
>
> I have talked to the service provider and everything looks good to them.
>
> I turned on the http_debug in the program.  I have been testing with the
> same http_url_get statement.  So the results should be the same.  Obviously
> the successful ones look good.
>
> When I compare the logs of the fails to the successful.  They are identical
> (except for date/time stamps).  When you get to the part where it has the
> JSON stuff is where it is different.
>
> This is a bad example of the log by where the data should be:
>    SetError() #13: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>    recvresp(): end with 200
>    recvdoc parms: identity 70975
>    header_load_cookies() entered
>    recvdoc(): entered
>    SetError() #0:
>    recvdoc(): Receiving 70975 bytes.
>    http_close(): entered
> Notice nothing between recvdoc() and http_close.
> Two of my fails had 49142 char of the JSON line.  The rest have no
> line/data.
>
> This is a successful example of the log by where the data should be:  I
> truncated the JSON line, it has all 70975 char.
>    SetError() #13: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>    recvresp(): end with 200
>    recvdoc parms: identity 70975
>    header_load_cookies() entered
>    recvdoc(): entered
>    SetError() #0:
>    recvdoc(): Receiving 70975 bytes.
>    [{"nCount":"454895600","vcRecordId":"0004...
>    http_close(): entered
> Note that this has the JSON between  recvdoc() and http_close.
>
> I have entered the http_url_get into my browser and always am successful.
> Trying to figure out why the one line of the log file would be missing.
> I know this email got long.  Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
> Confused.
> --
> Kerwin Crawford
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