Re: IBM i Receive XML POST

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you're the server then Scotts HTTP API won't really help.  That's more
of a client to make the requests.  (It may have some other features that
can help though, I've just never used it).

If it was JSON (which you may want to look into.. XML is old hat..haha) ,
then I would say whole heartedly to use his port of the YAJL parser for
parsing AND building the JSON.

You will want a web server to accept the requests.  Then parses the XML...
Then returns the response.

A CGI program will do this with the Apache server.  PHP should be able to
do it as well.  In fact, parsing the XML is the "hard" part of this whole
thing.

I think you may want to do some reading on the mechanics behind web
requests/responses to see how that works, then it may make more sense as to
how it should be done.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Matt Shea <mshea@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
>
> I have a requirement to begin receiving POSTed XML requests from a
> customer, process the request, and return an XML response back.  I'm not
> sure where to begin.  I have attempted this in PHP but have not been
> successful.
>
>
> So now I'm considering handling this in RPG using Scott's HTTPAPI but I
> haven't located an example that receives a XML POST request, only those
> that read from existing XML files.
>
>
> Does anyone have thoughts on best route to take without investment in
> another software package as there is no budget?  RPG vs PHP vs ???.
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Matt
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