Re: Doing a HTTP Post from rpg program -- RPG400-L

And it's refreshing to have someone say that it's
refreshing!  And not get any negative replies!

I've worked for companies that have their own data tagging
system.  They work great.

Brad

On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 08:51:38 +1200
 Peter Connell <peterc@baycorp.co.nz> wrote:
> Brad,
> Refreshing to see someone else who doesn't think that
> everything now has use
> XML protocol just because "it's there".
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Stone [mailto:brad@bvstools.com]
> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 1:33 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Doing a HTTP Post from rpg program
>
>
> 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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