Re: Relative URLs are not supported! (and I'm not sure what the problem is)

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jim,

HTTPAPI is looking for the string '://' in your URL.  It uses this to 
determine the end of the protocol name (http or https) and the start of 
the host name (secure.xxx123.com).  When it can't find it, it assumes 
you didn't provide a hostname, and therefore that this is a "relative" URL.

The example you posted in your e-mail *did* contain the '://' -- but 
obviously, that was a URL you made up to protect someone's privacy, and 
isn't the actual URL you're passing to HTTPAPI.

So...  you need to examine the URL you're passing to HTTPAPI and see why 
it doesn't have the requisite '://' in it.  Perhaps you did something 
silly like reverse teh slashes?  (For example, maybe you put ':\\' 
instead of '://'?) or for some reason your URL is getting blanked out? 
...or any one of a hundred other things that might cause your URL to be 
lacking a :// sequence...

Since we don't have the real URL, we have no chance of solving this for 
you... you'll have to hunt down the problem yourself.   If it's not 
something obvious, try stepping through the http_long_ParseURL() 
procedure in HTTPAPI using a debugger.


Lowary, Jim wrote:
> I've written a program and patterned it after Scott's EXAMPLE8 (ok
> basically stole it, since I'm new at using the HTTPApi's) and I had
> thought my problem was I was trying to us a TCP/IP address instead of a
> domain name when I was getting the error  "Relative URLs are not
> supported!".
> 
> So I added a host table entry to resolve this outside server, that I'm
> trying to go to (our Dev box does not have DNS so not to send trash to
> the world!).  Problem is I'm still getting that same error message.  I
> below is a mock up of the link I'm trying to reach:
> 
> https://secure.xxx123.com/yyyyyyB2B/zzzzz.xml
> 
> I confess I don't know enough about this to even know where to look for
> the problem.  It looked like the archives that this has been changed so
> that this type of thing should work, but how do I tell if the version I
> have loaded has this fix in it?  Or am I using the wrong example to
> pattern my program after?  Or just way off in left field and don't have
> a clue?
> 
> Thanks for any help or pointers anyone can give me.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- Jim Lowary 
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