RE: Re: Receving data past back from a webservice

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Sender: <nellestj@xxxxxxx>

Where would I fing this HTTPAPI2 you mentioned?  I don't believe we have that.  I don't know if this helps or not, but I was able to reach the webserver and see a responce in IFS with the following:
http://10.223.30.230/billingtest/service1.asmx/BillingTest?orderNumber=554
                 eval      rc=http_url_get('http://10.223.30.230/'+
 'billingtest/'+
 'service1.asmx/BillingTest?'+
 'orderNumber=200'
 : '/testpost/testpost.html')

I would really prefer to have the data returned to me in the program, but I keep getting all sorts of errors.  Can I use this "get", and somehow get the data back to the program so that I can use it and display it to a screen?  I don't know if it helps, but the error message I get when I try to use the post is: 
DSPLY  XML parse failed at line 20, col 75: not well-form
> 
> From: "Calabro, Buck" <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2004/12/16 Thu PM 03:42:37 GMT
> To: <ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: Re: Receving data past back from a webservice
> 
> Sender: "Calabro, Buck" <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > I am still unable to get the post to work.  
> 
> I think you may be making this more complex than necessary.
> 
> > This is what the user who wrote the 
> > webservice gave me as a guide to follow.  
> 
> Excellent!  
> 
> > HTTP POST
> > The following is a sample HTTP POST request and response. The 
> > placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values.
> 
> This is what you must send:
> 
> > POST /billingtest/service1.asmx/BillingTest HTTP/1.1
> > Host: rtidev
> > Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> > Content-Length: length
> > 
> > orderNumber=string
> 
> 
> This is what comes back
> 
> > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> > Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
> > Content-Length: length
> > 
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > <string xmlns="http://roehl.com/webservices/";>string</string>
> 
> This contains exactly what he expects to hear, and what he will return to you.  I would advise you to hard-code these into a copy of an HTTPAPI2 and try it.  Don't think about anything else except sending an accurate POST and listening for the answer.
> 
> > If I were to read from the IFS, how would I go about doing that?
> 
> What exactly are you trying to read from the IFS?  The basic flow runs from your program to the web server and back to your program.  There isn't any IFS involved.  I'd forget that for the moment and hard-code the above and run it.
>   --buck
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