Re: CGI as go-between

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

It doesn't matter if the RPG program is the final consumer or (transforms
and) passes the response to it's caller...

Call the other web-service using whatever make it easiest...

HTTPAPI if you're familiar with it...

On of the IBM provided tools for calling a webservice...

Charles

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:28 AM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I have an existing RPGLE/CGI app where the client needs to call a separate
> webservice.  For security reasons, the client can't call the webservice
> directly.  So I want my RPGLE code to act as the go-between.  What's the
> most efficient way for RPGLE/CGI to call a webservice and return the
> response verbatim to its client?  I've used HTTPAPI in cases where RPGLE is
> the final consumer, but I'm not sure if there's a better way in this
> situation.
>
> TIA
>
>
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