Re: Use https url and user/password to download csv file - doable in RPG?

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

The only difference should be the port that's used.  Same if you were using
our GETURI command to retrieve it.

Cold Fusion, eh?  did I go back in time?  ;)


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 1:48 PM, John Rusling
<jrusling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> One of our coldfusion guys threw something together to download a csv file
> from the workday (cloud?) web service in a few minutes. Code similar to
> below -
>
> <cfhttp url="
> https://yadda/yadda/somethingsomething/RPT_MyCsvFile?format=csv";
>
>                                 username="theusername"
>                                 password="thepassword"
>                                 result="downloadedFile"
>                                 multipart="true">
>
> <cffile action="write" file="C:\inetpub\wwwroot\temp\webService
> \RPT_MyCsvFile.csv" output="#downloadedFile.filecontent#">
>
> Is this doable in RPG or using Scott Klement's httpapi??
>
> I have used httpapi before to get weather from wunderground
> and display results on the screen but that uses http, not https.
>
> I know there are some examples having to do with https in the httpapi
> library but have never tried them.
>
> John
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