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RE: wget via HTTPAPI
Just to put some finality (is that a word?) on this: Yes, it was that
simple. It's working beautifully.
--
Jeff Crosby
UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531
www.dilgardfoods.com
The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company. Unless I say so.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ftpapi-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ftpapi-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 12:56 PM
> To: HTTPAPI and FTPAPI Projects
> Subject: Re: wget via HTTPAPI
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> It really depends on what your contractor asks for... but, it might be
> that simple, yes.
>
> FWIW, the current BETA version of HTTPAPI (not the current release) has
> a CL command interface, so with that beta, you can do this from a CL
> program:
>
> HTTPAPI URL('http://whatever/whatever')
> DOWNLOAD('/tmp/myfile')
>
> In the current release, you need to call it as an ILE procedure, this is
> a free format RPG example:
>
> rc = http_get( 'http://whatever/whatever
> : '/tmp/myfile');
> if (rc <> 1);
> // handle error.
> endif;
>
> But, hopefully it's that simple. The possibility exists that the
> contractor is expecting you to use HTTP instead of FTP to send the files
> or something like that, and if that's the case, it might turn out to be
> something more.
>
>
> Jeff Crosby 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.
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Crosby
> > UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
> > P.O. Box 13369
> > Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
> > 260-422-7531
> > www.dilgardfoods.com
> >
> > The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
> > company. Unless I say so.
> >
> >
> >
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