Re: Problem with POST in HTT API

[Christian <chrisv5@xxxxxx>]

Sender: Christian <chrisv5@xxxxxx>

I'll do all of those things once I return from Asia. Anyway, as I had 
said in a previous post, I tried EXAMPLE2 which contains a simple POST 
to a server which should work. In this example I do not even get to the 
POST cause the API wrongly assumes that I do not have the right to write 
the output file. I have posted this before, but it got ignored.

So far, no POST has succeeded for me.

Scott Klement wrote:
> 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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