QtmhRdStin at V5R4

Hi,

Having just upgraded from V5R2 to V5R4 we had a problem with the certain
CGI apps where calls from RPG to the QtmhRdStin API now return blanks.
However, it worked OK in other CGI apps which also use QtmhRdStin.

My investigation shows that it appears that the problem relates to the
HTTP request header being received by the Apache HTTP server, namely
when it contains the header entry CONTENT-TYPE: TEXT/XML; CHARSET=UTF-8

While this has always worked OK at V5R2, it would appear that Apache at
V5R4 does not handle this header as expected.
When the HTTP client is a browser, the problem arises when the browser
sends a request using the Microsoft.XMLHTTP control, but only when the
xml payload has a data type that is a document. NOTE - a payload which
is formatted as a string works fine.

So it appears that sending an xml document created via the
Microsoft.XMLDOM control will generate an http header with a content
type of text/xml which Apache does not like.

However, having confirmed that the problem still occurs when reading
STDIN directly from RPG via the read API, provided via QC2LE, then it
may be reasonable to suspect that any CGI application will suffer from
this affliction when passed a header with a content type of text/xml.

I can work around the problem for browser based requests by ensuring
that the payload is a string instead of a DOM document, but it would be
preferable if there was a way to alter the Apache HTTP configuration to
accomodate this. I have tried various Addtype directives and attempted
a rewrite rule by to no avail.
Has anyone else had a solve this?

Note - I bit of googling throws up comments about TEXT/XML being
deprecated and some conjecture as to whether this is a Microsoft or
Apache issue.

Cheers, Peter


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