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Re: Will HTTPAPI send test HL7 stream file?
Sender: michaelr_41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
HTTPAPI isn't a browser - it's a set of Appliation Programming Interfaces
that enable a program to communicate with a web server. I use it to
programmatically send and receive information with a credit provider.
HTTPAPI could be used to send an HL7 (I'm pretty familiar with it) data
stream to a web server, but that's not what HL7 usually interacts with.
You want to create a sockets program that communicates with a server
application. The fact that it's HL7 is meaningless - data is data. This
can teach you how to write sockets programs -
http://www.scottklement.com/rpg/socktut/index.html.
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:33:31 -0400 (EDT), "M" <nospam69@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Thanks for the response. Sounds like HTTPAPI is kind of like internet
> explorer or mozilla for OS400. Interesting and maybe i have a use for
> this - but seems to not be for this purpose. What i need is something
> that will listen on a port and send also using TCP sockets. Guess i
> will need to start looking at sockets APIs. HL7 stands for Hospital
> Language version 7 - or something like that. It is basically just a
> stream of formatted data - sort of the the same purpose as XML but not
> as flexible or nice. Any programmer that works in a hospital will be
> all too familiar with HL7! Thanks again- Mike---
> On Sun 06/06, Scott Klement < sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:From:
> Scott Klement [mailto: sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]To:
> ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 16:41:12 -0500 (CDT)Subject:
> Re: Will HTTPAPI send test HL7 stream file?Sender: Scott Klement Hi
> Mike,> Just hoping for someone to confirm one way or another before
> i start> playing with this- W!
> hat i want to do is to be able to to edit a file in>
> EDTF/notepad/whatever to create a mock HL7 transaction that i could
> send> to an IP/Port address. Also would like to be able to
> listen/recieve on a> port as well. Need to be able to set up or
> specify a particular port for> send and recieve. Is HTTPAPI suitable
> for this? Anyone done it? Thanks-> Mike L.I see that nobody has
> responded to this. Personally, I don't know whatHL7 is. A quick search
> with google turns up links to documentation for ahealth care standard in
> Australia. Is that what you're talking about?HTTPAPI is a set of APIs
> for implementing HTTP client behavior in your ILEprograms. It's able to
> send requests to HTTP servers, and receive back theirresponses.It's not
> able to listen for connections, as it is just a client, not aserver. But
> OS/400 does come with an HTTP server, so it would be silly towrite your
> own.If HL7 data can be sent using the standard HTTP protocol, then
> acombination of HTTPAPI an!
> d the HTTP server that comes with OS/400 shouldbe able to do the job,
>
> with a little programming on your
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