Replacing a Web Service with RPG...

Hi everybody,

        I created a web service for a LARGE client to send soap messages to and
receive responses from.  Unfortunately, their soap/xml is invalid according
to IBM level 2 support.  That is, Was V6.0 won't parse it successfully.  I
have absolutely no control over the incoming message - most of the others
communicating in this way are using Micr$oft tools which have no apparent
problem with the invalid namespaces used in the soap/xml message or are
manually parsing it in some way.

        It occurred to me that it might be possible to set up an RPG program
listening on an internal port and just suck the message in and manually
parse it,  produce a reply and send it.  I immediately thought about Scott's
HTTPAPI, but I was unsure if the httpapi had any facility for doing that.
It seems that all of the api's require a URL for gets/posts and it isn't
obvious to me how to set that up or if this is even true.

        I guess I could just write a socket program listening to an internal 
port
that I have a reverse proxy in apache pointing to... ?

        If anybody has any suggestions/hints/pointers I would appreciate them.

        Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Rick DuVall
Systems Manager
Dealer's Auto Auction of Okc
405 947-2886 Ext:143
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