Re: Post to a file, Conversion from ASCII to EBCDIC

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

HTTP is a binary protocol -- it's not purely used for text, therefore 
having it do translation would be harmful.  For example, if you download 
a video and run it through an ASCII/EBCDIC translation table, that video 
is going to be pretty worthless when you're done.

Same goes for many other types of objects.

Is there some particular reason you want to translate data that you're 
saving to the IFS?   Why wouldn't you just save it to a file, and let 
the other application open the file in text mode (O_TEXTDATA on the 
open() API)??   If the data is text, then that's really the right thing 
to do.

And assuming you do that, the OS will automatically do the ASCII/EBCDIC 
translation when you read the file.  No need to do it when saving it to 
disk.

Michael Ryan wrote:
>    I've used HTTPAPI successfully for several projects, and have always
>    used http_url_post_raw, received the data back in a string, translated
>    to EBCDIC, and processed it. I need to save the data to a file and
>    make the file available to another application. So, I could use
>    http_url_post and save the data to a file on the IFS, but then it will
>    be in ASCII. I would then have to translate the file contents to
>    EBCDIC. Or, I could use http_url_post_raw, translate to EBCDIC, and
>    write to a file. Or...I could use the best way, which is the one I
>    don't know. :)
>    What's the best way to accomplish this? Thanks!
> 
> 
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