Re: Provide referer when accessing web service with HTTPAPI

What we did with GETURI to solve issues like this is allow the user to use
up to 10 user defined headers and values. This lets them add things like
referrer, or other special headers that may be required (like SOAP-Action,
etc).

Brad
www.bvstools.com


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Scott Mildenberger <
SMildenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

HTTPAPI does allow certain fields in the header to be defined but referer
is not one of them. I guess I can just modify it to add referer when it
builds the header, it currently doesn't specify it at all so I will just
add it.

Thanks,

Scott


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Kevin Turner
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 12:45 PM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Provide referer when accessing web service with
HTTPAPI

What is preventing you from providing the referer (sic) in the HTTP header
to placate the web service?

I would imagine HTTPAPI allows you to define the HTTP header for your
request doesn't it?

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Scott Mildenberger
Sent: 24 October 2013 17:05
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WEB400] Provide referer when accessing web service with HTTPAPI

I am accessing a web service using HTTPAPI procedure http_url_get_raw().
Since the access is not coming from a web page it is being rejected
because the referer is blank. The web service does have an option to
'Enable Blank Referers' which will allow it to work but they warn that this
may allow others to access the web service under our account. If this is
not enabled I cannot access even by putting the address into the browser,
it must be embedded as a link in a web page to work.

Is there a way to provide the referer? Is setting up my account to allow
blank referers much of an issue as all of my access to this account is from
behind our firewall?

Thanks,

Scott Mildenberger
Programmer/Analyst
Davis Transport Inc.
Missoula, MT
406-728-5510 x128
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