Re: HTTPAPI Deployment

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


>  1.) Enabling AS400 to hit the web

Your iSeries, like any other computer, must have it's TCP/IP configured to 
use the proper IP address, netmask, default gateway, and must be able to 
do DNS lookups of outside computers.

This is an iSeries configuration issue, and is not specific to HTTPAPI. 
You'd need this any time you wanted a program on the iSeries to access the 
Internet.

Type CFGTCP for a menu where you can set these options.  See the 
IBM Information Center for documentation on how to configure your system.

>  2.) HTTP server should be runnign etc..

HTTPAPI doesn't use the HTTP server.  The HTTP server is for serving HTTP 
requests.  HTTPAPI is for *making* HTTP requests, they are the opposites 
of one another.

The only reason you might need the HTTP server is to configure SSL. 
OS/400's SSL support doesn't have a green-screen tool to configure it, you 
have to use the graphical configuration tool which runs in the HTTP 
server.  Once you're done configuring it, you can stop the HTTP server. 
This isn't directly related to HTTPAPI, but since HTTPAPI uses the SSL 
routines that come with OS/400, you may need the HTTP server if you want 
to use the SSL support.

There's a source member called README in the QRPGLESRC in the HTTPAPI 
documentation that should explain everything you need to know about SSL 
setup.

>  As we were discussing earlier our as400 is inside a network with 
> firewall, apart

It sounds like you started this sentence and forgot to finish it. 
Obviously, your firewall will need to allow the iSeries to make HTTP 
requests.


>  My sysadmin says we have an AS400 firewall as well.

I don't understand what you mean by this.  You mean that you have an 
additional firewall for your AS/400?  above and beyond the regular one on 
your LAN?   IF so, why?

>  Should I touch my local host tables or just only CHGTCPCMD would suffice.

I don't have a CHGTCPCMD command on my system, so I don't know what it 
does.

You never have to put entries in your host tables to use TCP/IP 
applications.  In fact, I consider it to be a very poor practice to put 
things in your host table.
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