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Re: Posting Change Problem

Sender: Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


The "Internal Server Error" message usually means that the program that runs on the Bank's Web Server ended abnormally. (i.e. it crashed, or dumped or whatever you want to call it.)

Unfortunately, that's all we really know at this point.

This COULD be a problem with the data you're sending. It could be that the program on the server crashes when the data isn't the way it expected it to be. This is the most common thing because the people who wrote the program probably tested and made sure it worked when the data WAS valid.

On the other hand, there could be an undiscovered bug in their code.

It's really hard to say, since all we know for sure is that something failed. We don't know what failed or why.

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Scott Klement  http://www.scottklement.com

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 

We've been using HTTPAPI for almost two years to transmit our
direct-deposit payroll file to the bank.  The bank is now switching to a
new web site and they want us to send them a test file but it's not
working.  The new site looks pretty much the same as the old site but has a
few cosmetic differences.  Comparing the HTML source between the old and
new sites it looks like they've added some JavaScript to the new site (I
don't know JavaScript).  We have been using a digital certificate to log in
to the old site and it's been working great.  Initially, I thought there
might have been an issue that they didn't have our current certificate set
up on their new system but now I don't think so.

After the doing the http_url_get we receive:
Virtual user nkausrf1 logged in.

This looks like it's connecting OK.  After doing the http_url_post_stmf we
get:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>500 Internal Server Error</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Internal Server Error</H1>
The server encountered an internal error or
misconfiguration and was unable to complete
your request.<P>
Please contact the server administrator,
[no address given] </BODY></HTML>


This looks to me like their server can't handle what I'm sending.  The only
change that I've made to my original program was just changing the URL.  Do
I need to be looking at something else?

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