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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 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- What 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 what
HL7 is. A quick
search with google turns up links to documentation for a
health
care standard in Australia. Is that what you're talking
about?
HTTPAPI is ! a set of APIs for implementing HTTP client
behavior in your ILE
pro grams. It's able to send requests to HTTP
servers, and receive back their
responses.
It's not able to
listen for connections, as it is just a client, not a
server. But
OS/400 does come with an HTTP server, so it would be silly to
write
your own.
If HL7 data can be sent using the standard HTTP
protocol, then a
combination of HTTPAPI and the HTTP server that
comes with OS/400 should
be able to do the job, with a little
programming on your
part.
HTH
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