Re: RPG sockets HTTPS subfolder

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Versfelt, Charles <CVERSFELT@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Our web guy told me, just send anything to that site.  He set up a folder on the site, he gave me a URL, in the form of "https://xxx.abc/def/ghi";) and said, "Send me something there, anything."

I said, "I was told it has to be valid XML instructions," I even gave the analogy of the "bibbity bobbity."
He said, "Sure, send me any XML, I don't care what it is.  Drop it into this folder and I'll see if I can open and look at it."
I described the sample program with the UPS tracking#, he said just to send that, whatever the UPS site gets in the sample program.  He seems to think that I can send anything and it will show up in his folder as something he can read.

Correct me if I'm wrong..... What he's asking for doesn't make any sense, does it?
I can't just send him anything... Can I?

It doesn't make sense to me.

If your web server really allows you to drop anything into a folder,
you need a new web guy.

From a Proof of concept standpoint, you should be able to read using,

HTTP_GET, any page he tells you to and store it in a stream file in
the IFS or display the source on the screen. Additionally, you should
be able to use HTTP_POST (or HTTP_GET ) to submit data to any URI he
gives you. If the server doesn't have something configured to handle
the post, he should at leat be able to see that the server received it
in the logs.

HTH,
Charles