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RE: Ftpapi Digest, Vol 44, Issue 1
Debug logs are generated when you turn them on.
(from example1)
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* Turning on debugging.
*
* Calling http_debug and passing *ON will turn on
* HTTPAPI's debugging support. It will write a debug
* log file to the IFS in /tmp/httpapi_debug.txt
* with loads of tech info about the HTTP transaction.
*
* The debug file is crucial if you have problems!
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c callp http_debug(*ON)
After you call your program, look in /tmp/httpapi_debug.txt and you will see most of the "conversation" that goes on behind the scenes.
As far as slash or no slash, it depends on if you know what you want to get. In this case, it sounds like there should be a web service running on the server and you should be making a direct call to the web service (most likely no slash). However, if you want to retrieve whatever is at http://abc.com/products/ then include the slash. The web server will serve up the standard page from that directory (most likely index.html). If upon examination of the index.html page, you decide to pull up producta information, then it would be appropriate to make the call to http://abc.com/products/producta.html (no slash - direct retrieval of page).
302 is a redirection "error". Example4 shows one way to deal with 302.
Mike Krebs
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ftpapi-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ftpapi-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Versfelt, Charles
> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 10:02 AM
> To: ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Ftpapi Digest, Vol 44, Issue 1
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm still working on doing my first attempt to send to an HTTPS server
> using HTTPAPI.
> I'm using a slightly modified version of Example 16.
> I actually made some progress and got a little further.. I'm not sure
> how to do a debug log of the HTTPAPI itself.
> I've been walking through the RPG in regular debug.
>
> First, I got this message: (GSKit) Access to the key database is not
> allowed.
> Problem solved: I found the solution in the archives, an authority
> issue which I had our Operations manager fix.
>
> Then, I got this message: (GSKit) Handle is not valid.
> I did a reclaim activation group to solve that.
> Question: When I write my 'real' application, will I have to reclaim
> activation group before every call?
>
> Now that I got through those issues, I made it to this:
>
> I tried structuring my link two different ways, with and without a
> trailing "/"
>
> Here's my command, I just changed the "xxx" part.
>
> rc = http_url_post_xml('https://beta.xxx.com/cf/as400'
> : %addr(postData) + 2
> : %len(postData)
> : %paddr(StartOfElement)
> : %paddr(EndOfElement)
> : *NULL );
>
> Alternate, with the trailing /:
>
> rc = http_url_post_xml('https://beta.xxx.com/cf/as400/'
>
> 1. When I do the first version (without the trailing "/") I get error
> 302
>
> Error: HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
>
> 2. When I do the second version (with the trailing "/") I get -1
>
> Error: XML parse failed at line 2, col 0: no element found
>
> Thanks,
> Charlie
>
> >Please tell us what the error message is. The -1 by itself just means
> >"something went wrong". Your program then needs to call http_error()
> >o determine WHAT went wrong.
>
> >Or even better yet, create a debug log that shows everything that
> HTTPAPI is going through, and where it's getting the error.
>
> >Please also move this conversation to the FTPAPI mailing list (which
> is the proper place to discuss both the HTTPAPI and
> >FTPAPI projects) rather than on Midrange.com
>
>
> On 2/1/2010 2:58 PM, Versfelt, Charles wrote:
> >
> > Hi again,
> >
> > Please forgive me for my "beginner" questions, it's frustrating that
> > no one at my company knows the socket/HTTPS/HTTPAPI And I have to
> learn it on the fly...
> >
> > My web guy, of course, doesn't know RPG or iSeries or HTTPAPI... He
> only knows the web.
> >
> > When I asked on here about sending nonsense, you (Scott) gave the
> analogy of calling an operator and saying "bibbity bobbity."
> >
> > I'm suspecting from that answer, that what my web guy asked me to do
> on the outset of this project... Makes no sense.
> > That my request has been "bibbity bobbity" and that's why I'm trying
> to do "bibbity bobbity."
> >
> > Here's the situation: The actual project, we will have an https site
> to send and receive payment data, is not yet ready.
> > That is, I'm still waiting for people in the management end for the
> "outside" site I'm ultimately going to send and receive data.
> >
> > In the meantime, I've been asked as a "proof of concept" to prove
> that
> > I can send something, anything, from an RPG program on the iSeries to
> an https site.
> >
> > My company has its own https site, as well as a beta development
> https site, which is used for other purposes.
> >
> > Our web guy told me, just send anything to that site. He set up a
> folder on the site, he gave me a URL, in the form of
> "https://xxx.abc/def/ghi";) and said, "Send me something there,
> anything."
> >
> > I said, "I was told it has to be valid XML instructions," I even gave
> the analogy of the "bibbity bobbity."
> > He said, "Sure, send me any XML, I don't care what it is. Drop it
> into this folder and I'll see if I can open and look at it."
> > I described the sample program with the UPS tracking#, he said just
> to send that, whatever the UPS site gets in the sample program. He
> seems to think that I can send anything and it will show up in his
> folder as something he can read.
> >
> > Correct me if I'm wrong..... What he's asking for doesn't make any
> sense, does it?
> > I can't just send him anything... Can I?
> >
> > Doesn't the https site itself have to have some web programming on
> his end (analogy: "the operator") that is looking for specific type of
> intructions (XML in the format expected by the site, in the analogy,
> speak the language the operator understands, as for example, a UPS site
> has some sort of web programming that expects to see<AccessRequest>
> and then, inside that,<AccessLicenseNumber> and etc.) and if the
> https: site doesn't have some sort of web program expecting to see
> those commands, then it's like a telephone with no operator and it all
> becomes gobbeldy gook?
> >
> > He seems very sure that I should be able to just get a connection
> from my AS400 by plugging in the URL and then drop anything into his
> folder, and he can read it.
> >
> > I tried taking the EXAMPLE programs (5 and 12) and changing the UPS
> URLs to the URL the web guy gave me, and then just run them exactly as
> is.
> >
> > They come back with rc = -1. My web guy sees nothing.
> >
> > Am I getting -1 because I really need to hit an https site that is
> expecting something meaningful to it, that the https: site has to have
> something waiting for specific XML commands?
> >
> > Charlie
> >
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