RE: Getting data from banks

Bradley, in your or Scott's method, does it do the access via a standard HTTP GET request ? to be made to day xe.com  servers ?

--- On Tue, 6/24/08, Bradley V. Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Bradley V. Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Getting data from banks
To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 3:23 PM

There should be some websites that have the data. I know I've helped
customers use my GETURI application (or scott's HTTP API) to go out and
retrieve it from there.

Bradley V. Stone
BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Francis Lapeyre
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:45 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Getting data from banks


A Google search for "currency rates data" comes up with a bunch
of services,
but they'll cost you.

What looks fairly easy (you can get it as a .csv file, and then,
presumably,
use CPYFRMIMPF to put it into a physical file) is

http://www.xe.com/dfs/product.php



On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Adam Glauser

<adamglauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

Adam West wrote:

Is it doable to have an RPG program go to a web site and get

the rates or

it must be done via an FTP or XML process?

I'm not really sure what you mean by "an XML process".

HTTP and FTP are

communication protocols while HTML and XML are markup languages, or

ways

of formatting data. Web sites of the sort that a human would usually
look at in a browser are usually HTML documents retrieved using HTTP.
Web services often return XML documents using HTTP.

FTP is just another way of getting data from one place to another.

You

might get XML, CSV, field-delimited or some other type of document

from

an FTP server.

If you want to try to extract rates from an HTML page (aka web site),

I

only have one word of advice ... don't! If you can get the data

in

another format it would likely be much easier on you. Parsing HTML

is

painful compared to parsing XML or a delimited file (the type you

might

get via FTP).
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