Responding to an HTTP post

[Mark Humpage <Mark.Humpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Scott,
First let me say a big thanks for the HTTP API tools and the support you
are supplying! :-D

Here comes the traditional dumb newbie question -
which I expect merits the traditional "wtf?" reply! :-)


My task is to interface with incoming HTTP posts containing XML messages.
I'm using an apache server instance to hand the post off to a program and
read in the input stream (using CGIDEV2 BTW) I then parse the XML and send
a response. From what I can tell (and I've only just started looking)HTTPAPI
is more about initiating HTTP requests than handling them, but I was wondering
whether HTTPAPI might help me a) with the XML parsing (using the expat
tools) and b) send back a given http response code (200,400,500 etc). ?

I may also have to post http requests back the other way which is why I
started looking at HTTPAPI in the first place..

Cheers Mark

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