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You don't have a choice on your end if it's is GET or POST,
really.  It's the server side that lets you know if one or
either or both will work.

Making a POST request is not that different from making a
GET request.  Just a few more parms in the HTTP header
portion of the request being made.

Brad

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 23:28:15 +0200
 "Joep Beckeringh" <joep@beckeringh.myweb.nl> wrote:
> Hm.  I can see the need for making requests from within a
> program, but I
> think I'd go for the GET then.  For a POST I assume there
> has to be some
> program in the server processing the posted information,
> so when I issue a
> POST from within a program I would have to know what the
> other side expects.
> That would become something like APPC over HTTP, or am I
> missing something?
>
> Joep Beckeringh
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Stone" <brad@bvstools.com>
> To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 1:01 AM
> Subject: Re: Doing a HTTP Post from rpg program
>
>
> > Not true, Joep.
> >
> > Many applications require that you capture the data
> from a
> > web page, and this can only be done with a program that
> can
> > make the request (GET or POST) and store retrieve the
> result
> > returned from the server where the action was made.
> >
> > Brad
>
>
>
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