Re: CCSID issues

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay, so it's not really a log file -- it's the data that you've 
downloaded from the HTTP server.

HTTPAPI is a binary file transfer program.  It doesn't understand the 
various text encodings it downloads, it merely saves the data 
byte-by-byte to the file.

It sets the file's CCSID to 819 by default -- but that doesn't mean that 
the data is 819.  HTTPAPI doesn't know what the data is.  It just picked 
819 as the default because it seemed like the most common CCSID at the 
time that HTTPAPI was written.

You can change the CCSID it saves the file under by calling the 
HTTP_SetFileCCSID() procedure.


On 3/1/2010 2:35 PM, Smith, Mike wrote:
> Hi Scott,
> I think I have used the wrong terminology and confused both yourself and
> Mike kreibs.
> Given the following example
>    C                   Eval      rc = http_url_post(%trim(PostURL) +
>   C                                    %trim(postdata)
>   C                                    : mypointer
>   C                                    : %len(PostData)
>   C                                    : logfile
>   C                                    : HTTP_TIMEOUT
>   C                                    : HTTP_USERAGENT)
>   C
>
> The variable logfile will contain the response from the server.  I need
> a separate response file each time I perform a post(it might be
> overkill, but I'm just trying to be careful).
>
> So after I perform the post, I want to read the contents from logfile
> and if there is anything in this file, send a notification to the proper
> people.  This file is being created with CCSID 819, but I can't seem to
> read it correctly.  I'll take a look at chapter 5.
>
>
> Thanks.
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