RE: ISO-8859-1 and http_url_get_xml

["ian" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: "ian" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Currently I am using an older version (1.10) of httpapi, but will move up to
the latest version in the near future.
I note that the responses I get from the remote server are
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Is this the equivalent of the ISO 8859 or should I anticipate problems ?

Regards,

Ian Patterson


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: 21 September 2005 16:47
To: ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: ISO-8859-1 and http_url_get_xml



> I have a small challenge - i dont know how small ;-))
> but -  i use http_url_get_xml to send a request  to a server - but the
> data I get is running thru DCXLATE and not the ICONV procedure
> giving me the DB char (ex. æøå) a wrong value - ( xlate uses ascii to
> ebcdic  )

iconv() is the default option in the current versions of HTTPAPI, I
suggest you upgrade.


> The result from the server is <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> the data shows the "right" values in a browser

Hmmm... HTTPAPI doesn't distinguish between the XML document and the data
transmitted in the HTTP protocol. Upgrading to the current version of
HTTPAPI will solve your immediate problem since it uses ISO-8859-1 as the
default for both streams.

However, if the XML document was something besides ISO-8859-1, you'd still
run into problems since HTTPAPI doesn't do separate translation of that
data from the HTTP protocol data.

Let me think about that...

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