Re: New project....but where to start??

[David White <whitey.david@xxxxxxxxx>]

Appliance? Some sort of washer/dryer web service? Whatever dude...

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:10 PM,  <DivotDug@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Thanks for the information.
>
>   I may have the terminology incorrect.   Part of the MD5 token is the
>   GET/PUT so the appliance knows what to do with the request........I
>   guess it's really some sort of web service.
>
>   Thanks again, I am sure I will have more questions.
>
>   In a message dated 1/24/2011 2:29:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>   sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>     Hi Divot,
>     HTTPAPI can certainly perform a GET operation on an https:// URL,
>     which
>     seems to be what you want to do.
>     As for MD5... it's built-in to OS/400, at the MI-level.  Has been
>     for
>     ages.  You can use the _CIPHER MI instruction, or the QC3CALHA API
>     to
>     perform an MD5 hash.
>     The following articles discuss creating MD5 hashes
>     http://systeminetwork.com/article/utility-calculate-md5-hash-stream
>     -file
>     http://systeminetwork.com/article/calculate-sha-1-hash
>     http://systeminetwork.com/article/sha1-md5-and-base64-without-apis
>     The whole thing seems strange to me, as you refer to this as an
>     "FTP
>     server appliance", yet you don't appear to be using FTP to
>     communicate
>     with it....  strange, strange, strange...
>     On 1/22/2011 4:57 PM, DivotDug@xxxxxxx wrote:
>     >
>     >     I am tasked with a new project and I am not sure where to
>     start.
>     >
>     >     I need to put/get files from something called an Accillion
>     managed FTP
>     >     server appliance.   Here is an exmple of the command to get a
>     file.
>     >
>     >     The URL for the call is as follows:
>     >     https://<hostname of appliance>/seos/<application
>     ID>/mpd/<MD5 hash
>     >     token>/<file
>     >     handle>
>     >
>     >     I assume that I want to use HTTPAPI for this process.  Is my
>     >     assumption correct?   Has anyone had any experience with
>     creating a
>     >     MD5 hash token on the IBM i?
>     >
>     >     Thanks in advance for any and all help.
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