RE: https with userid and password

["Stoicescu, Adriana" <astoicescu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: "Stoicescu, Adriana" <astoicescu@xxxxxxxxxx>

In fact 'xml' is the only parameter of their program and they are asking me
to pass it with a GET syntax although it is a POST. They want the variable
to be named xml. How can I do this?
This I cannot understand.
Adriana

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From: owner-ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 2:20 PM
To: 'ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: https with userid and password

Sender: Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Scott, I have an idea and you can confirm if it is right. They told me 
> to pass 'https:. . .?xml=. . .' I will remove the ?xml= because I 
> believe this is the parameter that is passed by the html_url_post in 
> p_data.

Typically when you specify ?xml=blahblah&somethingelse=blahblah, it's done 
in a GET request.  GET was available before POST was, and they needed a 
way to send data from a form on a web page to a program on the computer, 
so they came up with a method of encoding variables and their values into 
the URL itself...  then the program that receives the request can parse 
the values and do processing based on them.  Great idea.

With a POST request this usually isn't necessary, because the prgoram gets 
it's input from a separate document that's uploaded (that's the document 
you specify with "p_data") but it's still possible to use it.

So, I really can't tell you whether the server needs the ?xml= as part of 
the URL, that depends on the server configuration.  In my opinion, they 
_shouldn't_ use it.  But there's no technical reason why they couldn't.

However, when you add data to the URL like this, you do have to be very 
careful to encode it properly so that the HTTP protocol understands that 
it's part of the URL, and not an additional field listed on the GET 
request.  If you've forgotten to encode it properly, that could certainly 
cause the error that you've listed.

You could try it without the ?xml= stuff, and see if that works.  But, if 
that stuff is required, please make sure that it's encoded correctly.  You 
can use HTTPAPI's http_url_encoder() routines to help you encode it.
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