RE: HTTPAPI / Web Services Question

[Mike Krebs <mkrebs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your web service program, if written using HTTPAPI, is a client. It is not a server. 

Simple solution:
Using any standard server, create a page that will accept a lot of data (post) and write a program that is the target of the post. CGIDEV2 has examples. See Hello here:
http://www.easy400.net/cgidev2o/demos.htm?ts=2014-12-12-23.26.19.152000

Then, once you expose that page to the outside entity, they can "call" your page using a variety of tools they may have on their system passing the file data as a variable. Your CGI program will pick it up the data and do whatever with it and return a page to them indicating success or failure.

The IBMi on current releases provides web service function using IWS. The getting started is pretty easy to try out.
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/iws/gettingstarted.html
I think Scott and maybe some others have written an article or two on this process. I know I have had two services I deployed internally for a few weeks. They were not "robust" enough for production (hence why I took them down) but worked fine to see how the process worked.

-----Original Message-----
From: ftpapi-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ftpapi-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Donnie Barrow
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 1:24 PM
To: HTTPAPI and FTPAPI Projects
Subject: HTTPAPI / Web Services Question

Ok I have a somewhat off the wall question. 

I have an outside entity that has a standard xml format [OMG]. They want to call my web service program. Can HTTPAPI / IWS retrieve/ receive the xml within the web service program without having the outside entity ftp the xml file to the ifs? 


Donnie BarrowiSeries Consultant513.709.0370


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