As you can see, hex 5B and 5D are the correct values for these characters. Also, HTTPAPI is not translating them at all. It is merely copying them to disk, as-is. It only does translation for the received document when it reports it as a character string
in your program (since RPG expects EBCDIC.) It does not translate data off of the network when saving to a file, since certain types of files (images, videos, sounds, and many more) would be hopelessly corrupted if they were changed.
The problem is occurring when you use a program to try to view it. This is when it is translating from code page 819 (which is what your file is marked with) to your job's CCSID.
Your job settings are unusual. You have told it to use USA English and ccsid 37 (which is typically used in the USA), but you say your region is GB (Great Britain) which normally uses CCSID 285 and language code ENG. This makes me wonder if your terminal
is expecting 285 when you're telling it to use 37. That would certainly cause problems!
Hi
I am using the example 4 program from HTTPAPI but have changed it to call this web address
http://testcerts.online/as400/chartest.asp instead.
The webpage returns these results;
[ { "success":true, "errmsg":"" ,"list": [ { "CertNo":"630033267", "length":"0.00" }, "CertNo":"630033268", "length":"10.00" } ]
} ]
However when the results are stored in the IFS output file from the modified example 4 program, the two opening [ (square) brackets are translated into ^ (Caret) ( HEX 5B) symbol. The closing ] (square)
(HEX 5D) brackets are perfect.
I have found that if I get the webpage to write out HEX character A3 (ASCII 163) it does appear in the log and output file as an opening square brackets but appears on the website as a UK pound symbol.
Any ideas pleas?
The program runs with the following job attributes
DSPJOB (option 2)
Language identifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : ENU
Country or region identifier . . . . . . . . . . : GB
Coded character set identifier . . . . . . . . . : 37
Default coded character set identifier . . . . . : 37
Character identifier control . . . . . . . . . . : *DEVD
Debug File;
************Beginning of data**************
HTTPAPI Ver 1.42 released 2020-10-12
NTLM Ver 1.4.0 released 2014-12-22
OS/400 Ver V7R3M0
New iconv() objects set, PostRem=819. PostLoc=0. ProtRem=819. ProtLoc=0
http_persist_open(): entered
http_long_ParseURL(): entered
DNS resolver retrans: 2
DNS resolver retry : 2
DNS resolver options: x'00000136'
DNS default domain: BROWNTAWSE.COM
DNS server found: 8.8.8.8
DNS server found: 8.8.4.4
DNS server found: 194.168.4.123
Nagle's algorithm (TCP_NODELAY) disabled.
http_persist_req(POST) entered.
http_long_ParseURL(): entered
http_long_ParseURL(): entered
do_oper(POST): entered
There are 0 cookies in the cache
POST /as400/chartest.asp HTTP/1.1
Host: testcerts.online
User-Agent: http-api/1.43
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 30
senddoc(): entered
itemno=1541001JO++++++&castno=
recvresp(): entered
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html
Server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0
Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDCQTDAQCD=MDOLPBOBNLOLECNAOFAAHKDO; path=/
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:12:53 GMT
Content-Length: 154
SetError() #13: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
recvresp(): end with 200
recvdoc parms: identity 154
header_load_cookies() entered
cookie_parse() entered
cookie = ASPSESSIONIDCQTDAQCD=MDOLPBOBNLOLECNAOFAAHKDO; path=/
cookie attr ASPSESSIONIDCQTDAQCD=MDOLPBOBNLOLECNAOFAAHKDO
cookie attr path=/
recvdoc(): entered
SetError() #0:
recvdoc(): Receiving 154 bytes.
^ { "success":true, "errmsg":"" ,"list": ^ { "CertNo":"630033267", "length":"0.00" }, "CertNo":"630033268", "length":"10.00" } ] } ]
http_close(): entered
************End of Data********************