Re: https request - the first time

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Wolfgang,

> Is it necessary to make an init before https request?

It used to be required.  It's not required anymore unless you want to 
use client certificates or more control over the SSL settings.   Today, 
if you omit a call to https_init(), HTTPAPI will call it for you 
automatically and will pass *blanks as the parameter.

I will update the comments in EXAMPLE3.

> I give the request in this form:
> callp     http_xlate( %len(W#request)
>                     : W#request
>                     : TO_ASCII   )

You shouldn't call http_xlare().   http_url_post() will automatically 
convert your data to ASCII.

The way you're doing it, the data will be run through the EBCDIC->ASCII 
translation table twice, resulting in "garbage" data.  Just remove the 
call to http_xlate() and call http_url_post()

> 
> The result is no feedback - only return code 0 - "CommSSL_Read:  time-out"
> 

It looks like HTTPAPI is successfully sending the data to the HTTP 
server, but is not getting a response from the HTTP server.  So it sits 
and waits until it eventually times out.

It's possible that the http_xlate() is confusing the server and causing 
this problem???  I don't know.  See if removing http_xlate() helps.
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