Re: wget via HTTPAPI

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,

Pretty much it's that simple.

Only possible complication is that you may need to POST data to the
web site you are given the web page for.

In which case, you'd use the --post-data= argument of wget or that
you'd use http_url_post() or http_url_post_raw() out of HTTPAPI
(emaples 4 & 5).

HTH,
Charles

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> HTTPAPI newbie, have used FTPAPI for some time.
>
> Part of this was previously posted in the midrange mailing list.
>
> A contractor is doing a website product search for us (not live yet).  I am
> creating the search files on the System I and FTPing them to our godaddy
> website.  I have this working.
>
> The contractor says he will need a trigger of some sort to indicate the file
> uploads are complete.  He suggested wget.  The midrange.com archives suggest
> either geturi or httpapi can function as a wget.  Scott himself said httpapi
> could do it.
>
> This list's archives contain this post from Scott in 2002:
>
> <fromarchives>
>
> Sender: Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Not that I know of.  It should be pretty easy to do, however.
>
> What would be interesting would be something like a "wget" utility that
> incorporated both FTPAPI and HTTPAPI, and allowed you to just type a URL
> and get it.
>
> Like maybe:
>
>      fetch url('ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/pub/os400/something.savf')
> or
>      fetch url('http://www.foo.com/some/dir/somefile.dat')
>
> </fromarchives>
>
> Since this is from 2002, it's not exactly current.  I don't know what was in
> httpapi at that time.  I understand wget is used to retrieve website
> contents.  Isn't that what the httpapi procedure http_get does?  Does that
> mean all I need to do is http_get of the url my contractor ultimately gives
> me?  Is it really that simple?
>
> Thanks.
>
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