Re: HTTPAPI concerns

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

   Regarding b)
   It just doesn't make sense to reinvent the wheel when there's an open
   source project that does what you need it to do. �It's open source,
   you'll have the source what possible benefit could writing it in house
   have? �But it would have lots of downsides. �Namely nobody but your
   in-house staff would be familiar with it. �If the in house staff is
   stumped, there's nobody to ask for help. �With open source, there's a
   community of users that use it; many (most) smarter then me or you.
   As far as a), I know of one (but I think there's one or two others):
   GETURI [1]http://www.bvstools.com/geturi.html�;   But again, with Profound now offering paid support if you want it. �I
   don't see any reason not to go with HTTPAPI.
   Again, the best thing about open source, other than the price is the
   community around it. �With HTTPAPI in particular, you can find all
   sort of articles that show how to use it.
   Charles�
   On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Stephen Landess
   <[2]steve_landess@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

   Mike wrote:
   As far as I know, there is no way to track usage of HTTPAPI. Scott
   might be able to provide some broad stats on downloads but that would
   be far off the installed base. I personally have downloaded it at least
   10 times.
   When Scott announced the paid support through Profound Logic, I think
   he intimated that was in place precisely for your situation. Someone
   doesn't want to use a free product - so pay for it!
   There are other paid products that do something similar. I do not
   follow them and they probably work just as well for this but I have
   found this community of users and supporters to be pretty good.
   Especially since your client is moving off the IBMi, why would there be
   a concern for short term use? If your client can get what they need and
   it works for the next 18 months, I don't see the concern personally. It
   is not like they are making a huge investment for the next 20 years of
   SAP style resources to git er done. Even the $1200 a year is trivial in
   the scheme of converting the software environment.

     Mike -
     I forgot - one other question which was asked is:
     "Is there a) any commercial product or b) another alternative which
     provides a way to perform HTTP/HTTPS other than using HTTPAPI? "
     My off-the-cuff answer was:
     a) As far as I know, no.
     b) "Yes, if we want to re-invent the wheel..."
     -sjl

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References

   1. http://www.bvstools.com/geturi.html
   2. mailto:steve_landess@xxxxxxxxxxx
   3. http://www.scottklement.com/mailman/listinfo/ftpapi

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