Re: Reg: Header Parameters in IWS

[B Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

This article should help.  I ran into this issue a while back and put this
together... there is some apache/config needed.  There is also a link to a
Stack Overflow article that goes deeper.
https://www.fieldexit.com/forum/display?threadid=452

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On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 9:29 AM Suren K <suren7437@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am stuck with Header Parameter value retrieval using IWS. It would be a
> great help if some one provide me some lights to proceed further.
>
> As per the IWS manual "HTTP headers indicates what transport headers (e.g.
> HTTP headers) to pass to the web service
> implementation code. Transport headers are passed as environment variables.
> The environment variable
> name for HTTP headers is made up of the specified HTTP header prefixed with
> HTTP_, all upper-cased.
> For example, if Content-type is specified, then the environment variable
> name would be
> HTTP_CONTENT-TYPE. If an HTTP header was not passed in on the web service
> request, the environment
> variable value will be set to the null string."
>
> So I created a new HTTP Header in the IWS Step 7 (Specify Transport
> Information to be Passed) as HTTP_X-REQUEST-ID
>
> I am passing the header parameter from client as (X-Request-Id = 123456789)
>
> So here my assumption is, an Environment Variable will be created with name
> HTTP_X-REQUEST-ID with value as 123456789. When try to fetch the
> Environment variable value in my RPG program i am getting the value as
> NULL.
>
> Am i missing something in this? Or any PTF's needs to be applied to support
> this? My iSeries version is V7R3.
>
> Could you please let me know your comments on this one?
>
> Regards,
> Surender K
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