Re: Pointers and sockets - fun-strating!

[Marco Facchinetti <facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx>]

I solved the same problem using GETURI by Brad Stone, not
expansive, flexible and easy to use.

HTH
Marco
--- Larry <Larry_Ducie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> All,
> 
> I have two questions relating to the same project I am
> working on:
> 
> Basically, I'm having to POST xml data from IFS stream
> files to a HTTP
> server. This data will be validated by the host and a
> synchronous response
> will be sent back informing me of the status. I have had
> to write a simple
> HTTP client to do this - all in RPG. I am reading the
> files on to a pointer
> and then sending the data to the host using send(). So
> far, it's working
> fine, but I will need to send files with sizes exceeding
> 64K:  
> 
> 1) I believe pointers can have up to 16Mb allocated to
> them, but %str will
> only allow up to 64K of data to be written to the
> pointer. How would I go
> about writing more than 64K of data to a pointer?
> 
> 2) If I connect to a remote host using a socket and the
> host disconnects, do
> I need to go through the process of creating the socket
> again or do I simply
> call the connect() procedure again to reconnect? Also,
> how can I check that
> a connection is still open? (does that make it three
> questions? :-) )
> 
> I would REALLY appreciate some input on this.
> 
> Thanks everybody
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Larry   
> 



                
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!
http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail