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RE: Sending MIME-HEADERS with XML Web-Service Requests
Wayne,
Just a newb on this stuff...but a quick glance at the specs you specified
looks like they want a "custom" http header. You will need to build the
header yourself.
Again, just a newb, but the HTTPAPI appears to build the header in the
do_get/do_post procedures in HTTPAPIR4. I believe you could add some code in
the appropriate section and build the custom header fields out as needed. Or
you code clone those routines to create your own do_post_orbital procedure
(I personally like this one best). If you look in those procedures, you
will see that some of the "standard" fields (content-type) are already being
sent. This is where you would add your code.
The help desk should be able to provide a sample conversation (basically a
tcp dump without the tcp stuff). This would be helpful for newbs to build
out a new application as you could see the exact fields that needed to be
sent and in what sections they would be located.
HTH
Mike
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[mailto:ftpapi-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wayne Hardey
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 2:18 PM
To: ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Sending MIME-HEADERS with XML Web-Service Requests
Ladies and Gentlemen... I recently posted this message on the SystemiNetwork
e-Development forum. Scott was kind enough to offer some insight, and
suggested that my cause might be better served by posting my message here.
That seems like worthwhile advice, so here goes. Thanks (in advance) to
anyone who can provide any insight at all in this matter.
Wayne Hardey I have downloaded LIBHTTP, and am finding that it may be a very
useful set of tools. At the risk of asking you to be my personal "help
desk", I have encountered one problem that I am unable to resolve.
Perhaps you can offer some insight.
I am trying to submit a request to a credit card clearing house. The
clearing house requires data to be submitted as XML. They also require a
MIME-HEADER (with such elements as mime-version, content-type,
content-length, etc). I am uncertain how to send them this MIME-HEADER
information. I attempted to construct a string, and merely append it to the
beginning of the XML string that I am submitting. However, the response that
I am getting from the clearing house "help desk" indicates that they are
receiving a MIME-HEADER that looks absolutely nothing like what I sent (or
what they're expecting).
As you might suspect, they're only literate in C++, PHP, .asp, .net and the
such. They've never heard of an iSeries, much less RPG. I am having
considerable difficulty communicating with them. Can you offer any
suggestions about constructing a MIME-HEADER, and submitting it as part of a
web-service request using the tools in LIBHTTP?
Thanks so very much for any insight you can provide!! PS: if you wish to see
the specific instruction set I am working under, you can access it
(approximately 800Kb, 150-page .pdf document) from the following location on
the web.
http://www.paymentech.net/download/pdf/Orbital_Gateway_Interface_Specificati
on_v4.2.pdf
The specific instructions that are "giving me gas" are on pages 48-49.
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