Re: Replacing a Web Service with RPG...

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rick,

If all you want the RPG program to do is a GET or POST,
then Scotts HTTP API or my GETURI utility will do the
trick.  

With GETURI you have both a command and API interface.  And
there's a free trial which is fully functional so if you
just want to test, that can get you going quickly and for
free.

See www.bvstools.com/geturi.html for more information.

I know your frustration with some parsing tools.  Been
there, done that.  Didn't do much for my opinions  XML.
 I've even worked with one company who received XML docs
(POs) from the same company, but different "divisions" of
the company.  Needless to say, both were completely
different in format.. ugh...  

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:08:05 -0600
 "Rick DuVall" <R_C_DuVall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> rick@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
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Bradley V. Stone
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