Re: Doing a HTTP Post from rpg program

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Depends on what you mean.  For the data that is returned,
most definatly yes.  (or, it could be your companie's own
proprietary method of data communication).

But sending, I don't see why you'd use XML, except to keep
the parms you can pass INTO the program as "unrestricted" as
possible.  It's like...

/pgm/getdata?fname=brad&lname=stone
vs.
/pgm/getdata?data=<firstname>brad</firstname><lastname>stone</lastname>

I prefer #1 because you can control the data sent, you don't
have to parse XML, and there is less physical data moving
between machines.

Brad

On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 18:36:18 -0400
 "Alan Addison" <ahaddison@home.com> wrote:
> That is where xml really comes into play.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of Joep Beckeringh
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 5:59 PM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Doing a HTTP Post from rpg program
>
>
> Brad,
>
> What I meant was that I can see the use of a program,
> like a web crawler,
> making GET requests to retrieve static pages.  But when
> you make POST
> requests, or GET requests with parameters, you are
> effectively communicating
> with a program on the server, aren't you?  That implies
> that you have to
> know which parameters that program is expecting; or in
> other words, you have
> define an interface between the two programs.  And that
> is what made me
> think of APPC (I always wondered how anyone could call
> something like that
> 'advanced').
>
> Joep Beckeringh
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Stone" <brad@bvstools.com>
> To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 7:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Doing a HTTP Post from rpg program
>
>
> > 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
>
>
>
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