RE: RPG as a Web Service Consumer

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Scott Klement
>
> I know that this comment isn't very helpful, but... that's HTML, not
HTTP.
> It's not part of the HTTP standard in any way.  If it were HTTP, it
would
> look like "%3c"

You're right... I really AM tired.  What's really strange is that I
don't get this behavior in Java.  When I read the stuff through the Java
API, the data gets "de-HTML-ized".  Looking at the TCP/IP stream,
though, I can see the embedded > encoding.  So evidently the web
services API is encoding and decoding the stream magically.

I really hate magic APIs.


> HTTPAPI should be able to return as much as 4gb in a single transfer,
I
> haven't had any problems with that limit yet.

Okay, that makes sense.  I actually was having more problem with the
outbound side than the inbound side.  But for the outbound buffer,
HTTPAPI just takes a pointer and a length, and I suppose I can use a
user space for that.  I've not done much with user spaces, but my guess
is they are contiguous, and that I can read the data into a user space
and pass its address to HTTPAPI.  In fact, I bet if I was smart and had
my data in an IFS file that I could directly materialize a pointer to
the IFS file and pass that, but that would require me being smart.

Joe