Re: CGIDEV2 upload problem

No roll-your-own and other utilities here. CGIDEV2's standard ZhbGetInput() can handle file uploads that are part of a "multipart/form-data" request. ZhbGetInput() is the procedure used to read in CGI input parameters.




-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Paris [mailto:jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2018 11:07 AM
To: Web400@Midrange. Web400 <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WEB400] CGIDEV2 upload problem

Are you using the Easy400 file upload utility or have you rolled your own? If your own I would consider switching to Giovanni's code.

That said, we gave up doing our file uploads with RPG in favour of using PHP. Very simple, very reliable and significantly faster tag RPG in our experience. Happy to share our script with you if you email me off list. Our PHP hooks t the same Apache instance as everything else and so authentication is not an issue.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Jun 17, 2018, at 5:02 PM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a web service implemented using CGIDEV2. It uses basic authentication in Apache via a validation list. The web service receives two file uploads, as parameters, per call. It passes the IFS paths to those files to a *SRVPGM and returns the response to the caller.

This works fine most of the time. About once a day, CGIDEV2 crashes processing the file uploads. This permanently corrupts the IBMi job, and all subsequent calls to that job fail (even different programs/ activation groups). If the client retries, the call works (provided it gets a different IBMi job).

I'm working on a solution. Unlike text parameters, file uploads in CGI aren't trivial for DIY. I'm leaning towards replacing the RPG service with something else (e.g. Node, PHP, Python), although I'm reluctant to add a new language to our environment. I don't see a clear choice for which language to try. Also, the basic authentication is a big question mark.

We can probably change the URL the client calls, but that's probably about it. The budget is my time.

I welcome and appreciate any input you have to offer.

TIA
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