Re: Historic Curiosity Question: Websites in QSYS.LIB

[Raul Alberto Jager Weiler <raul.jager@xxxxxxxxx>]

It is easy to store images in blob, and display them in the web.  You can
find an example here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pOIwR8os6zczzILUxxLlj_1Bvggf-XLUrtoW5U077bw/edit?pli=1#heading=h.f3wrturc4h2v
The comments are in spanish, Google can translate. There are two programs,
one to load the other to display.

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 3:36 PM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have been told in a private mail exchange that a long time ago — before
> the IFS has come to the AS/400 — "websites" have been hosted within what we
> now recognize as QSYS.LIB file system. I saw on my P02 that the installable
> LPPs list in V2R3 features TCP/IP, while at the same time there is no IFS.
> Just the DLO "file system", which is — well known — a crude emulation of a
> hierarchical file system with objects being placed in a normal library
> (QDOC?). Back then, it could only be accessed through DLO commands.
>
> I found evidence that hosting web content in QSYS.LIB is indeed possible
> from the commented template configuration of the V4 IBM http server:
> https://try-as400.pocnet.net/wiki/IBM_HTTP-Server_for_AS/400_Configuration
>
> Scroll down to the "Pass - Accept matching requests" section. There are
> examples for how to code different file system paths:
>
> # QDLS:     Pass   /doc/*   /QDLS/WebTEST/*.HTM
> # Root:     Pass   /root/*  /WebSAMP/*.html
> # QOpenSys: Pass   /x/*     /QOpenSys/WebSAMP/*.html
> # QSYS:     Pass   /lib/*   /QSYS.LIB/WebSAMP.LIB/HTMLDOC.FILE/*.MBR
>
> While I see no problem with loading content from individual PF members in
> principle, what makes me really wonder is: How to cope with stream files,
> aka graphics? Does anyone have some memory about that?
>
>
> Part two.
>
> I know that newer releases of the (i)ntegrated database support BLOB
> fields defined though SQL. Those are a way to store and retrieve graphics.
> But I fail to understand how to access graphics saved in this way from
> within a web page, with an <img src> tag. Maybe this isn't possible at all?
> This is good example where IBM documentation largely fails for me. There is
> documentation about DB2 and BLOB fields. There is documentation praising
> IBM i's web serving abilities and how to configure those — in the end it's
> more or less Apache, no big deal. But some "in between" documentation gaps
> stay. Thus part two of my question to get some hints about where to
> probably take a closer look and read. :-)
>
> Thanks!
>
> :wq! PoC
>
>
>
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