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Re: Firewall question



Can you please post a debug log?


James Lampert wrote:
> Scott Klement wrote:
> . . .
>> Unless you mean that the request has actually ARRIVED on the server, and 
>> the server folks can see the request?   In that case, ignore everything 
>> I've said :)
> 
> Yes. We definitely know the request arrived. In fact, two requests 
> arrived within the space of less than a second, which can only happen if 
> the first call to http_url_get_raw (with the domain URL) immediately 
> returned something other than 1 (in this case, -1), but its request 
> still reached the server. (Or if the first one was delayed in arriving 
> for exactly as long as it took http_url_get_raw to return an error, and 
> the second one, with the dotted-decimal IP address, arrived instantly).
> 
> ========================
> 
> In pseudocode:
> 
> Client:
> 
> Call http_url_get_raw to access our web service by domain name.
> If that call fails, immediately try again by dotted-decimal IP.
> If that call fails, display an error message including the return code.
> 
> ====
> 
> Server:
> Receive a request.
> If the request is a POST, in the format of our older web service, 
> process it (not relevant here).
> 
> If the request is a GET, in the format of our new web service:
> {
>     Log the request.
>     Call the RPG program that processes the request.
>        RPG program generates response data, and logs it, with timestamp.
>     Frame the response data from the RPG program as an HTTP response.
>     Send the HTTP-formatted response.
> }
> 
> If the request is not valid for either web service, send a generic 
> negative response.
> 
> =========================
> 
> The two requests (both properly formatted for the web service) generated 
> calls to the RPG response generator within the same second on the RPG 
> TOD clock.
> 

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