Re: HTTPS/SSL

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Doug...you don't want a sockets server. You want a web server. If
you're using HTTPS, then you're using HyperText Transport Protocol
Secure...which is a web server. Check out easy400.net and look for
cgidev...that's the direction you want to go.

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Doug Englander
<d.englander@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Scott,
>   I do not know what to ask for. Sockets is new territory for me. This
>   is sort of related to my previous messages in that it is the same
>   project, just the data flow is originated from the client to me,
>   instead of the other way around. I agree with all who say this is a
>   Sockets Server solution, instead of client, based on what I am
>   learning.
>   If anyone has any examples, or links to articles / manuals, etc on how
>   to make this work, I would appreciate it.
>   Thank you for all suggestions / tips / comments!!!
>   Doug
>   > Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 18:48:56 -0500
>   > From: sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   > To: ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   > Subject: Re: HTTPS/SSL
>   >
>   > Doug,
>   >
>   > Not much information provided, but this sounds more like a server
>   > application. Use the HTTP server Powered by Apache that's included
>   with
>   > IBM i. Use CGI if you're planning to do this in RPG.
>   >
>   > The volume you suggested (100/hr) is very, very low. Performance
>   > shouldn't be an issue at all. (Though, performance with the HTTP
>   server
>   > is generally very good.)
>   >
>   > I'm guessing that this is unrelated to your previous messages --
>   since
>   > all of your previous ones referred to you operating as a client, and
>   > this time you're acting as a server?
>   >
>   > HTTPAPI won't help you with this. GSKit would work if you wanted to
>   > write your own HTTP server from the ground up, but frankly, that's
>   just
>   > silly... no need to reinvent the wheel, here. You're not going
>   anything
>   > unusual. Just use the HTTP server that comes with the OS.
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   > On 5/23/2011 9:19 AM, Doug Englander wrote:
>   > >
>   > > I have a need for a program to sit waiting on a HTTPS/SSL link. It
>   is
>   > > to wait for incoming transactions. There is no schedule as to when
>   > > they will come in, and I cannot retrieve them in a batch mode. I
>   will
>   > > need to have a program to sit and wait on an internet link to
>   receive
>   > > the transactions and process them immediately.
>   > >
>   > > There may be 100 in an hour or 5 in an hour.
>   > >
>   > > I would like to try this using RPGIV and the GS toolkit and also
>   use
>   > > the HTTPAPI routines as starting points.
>   > >
>   > > Has anyone set up this kind of application before? Can it be done?
>   > > Does someone have examples?
>   > >
>   > > Thank you,
>   > >
>   > > Doug
>   > >
>   >
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