Re: Problem with POST in HTT API

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> the very same data (from the very same HTTP_URL_Encoder) works perfectly
> when I submit a GET! Thus it simply cannot be the data. This is what
> baffles me.

But...  I use the POST routine every day, with dozens of different 
servers, and it works. So, what is different?

HTTPAPI doesn't attempt to interpret the contents of the data in a POST 
request. Other than performing EBCDIC to ASCII translation, it sends the 
data as-is to the server.

Therefore, I suggest that the problem might be in the EBCDIC->ASCII 
translation, but you say that the data is correct. Well, what could it 
be, then?

> Knowing the facts, though, might help to figure out what is done
> *differently* for GET and POST.  Apparently there is something which leads
> to the problem. Um... does anyone know a packet sniffer for the iSeries?
> On my PC I could easily find out what is going wrong, but...

If your iSeries and PC are connected by a hub (but not a switch or router) 
then you could run the sniffer on your PC and see everything, including 
the iSeries data.  This is how I typically debug things like this.

I prefer to use the open source Ethereal sniffer.

If you really want to do it on the iSeries, there's the STRCMNTRC, 
ENDCMNTRC and PRTCMNTRC commands. I find those to be very difficult to 
read, however.  These tools are also available via STRSST.
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