wget via HTTPAPI

["Jeff Crosby" <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

HTTPAPI newbie, have used FTPAPI for some time.

Part of this was previously posted in the midrange mailing list.

A contractor is doing a website product search for us (not live yet).  I am
creating the search files on the System I and FTPing them to our godaddy
website.  I have this working.

The contractor says he will need a trigger of some sort to indicate the file
uploads are complete.  He suggested wget.  The midrange.com archives suggest
either geturi or httpapi can function as a wget.  Scott himself said httpapi
could do it.

This list's archives contain this post from Scott in 2002:

<fromarchives>

Sender: Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Not that I know of.  It should be pretty easy to do, however.

What would be interesting would be something like a "wget" utility that
incorporated both FTPAPI and HTTPAPI, and allowed you to just type a URL
and get it.

Like maybe:

      fetch url('ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/pub/os400/something.savf')
or
      fetch url('http://www.foo.com/some/dir/somefile.dat')

</fromarchives>

Since this is from 2002, it's not exactly current.  I don't know what was in
httpapi at that time.  I understand wget is used to retrieve website
contents.  Isn't that what the httpapi procedure http_get does?  Does that
mean all I need to do is http_get of the url my contractor ultimately gives
me?  Is it really that simple?

Thanks.

--
Jeff Crosby
UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531
www.dilgardfoods.com

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company.  Unless I say so.



-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is the FTPAPI mailing list.  To unsubscribe, please go to:
http://www.scottklement.com/mailman/listinfo/ftpapi
-----------------------------------------------------------------------