RE: Net.Data -> RPG question.

[Peter Connell <Peter.Connell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mr Mosely is, of course, correct.
But to be clear, this has nothing to do with Net.data itself, but simply the nature of STDIN. While it can be read like any other stream, the read consumes it, as happens with a data queue.
So the first application that reads it, empties it, whether that is PHP, ASP, Net.data, RPG, REXX or an API for example. No matter what application in any language is called subsequently, the cupboard is bare.

Peter 


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vern Hamberg
Sent: Friday, 6 August 2010 7:30 a.m.
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Net.Data -> RPG question.

Dave

I don't think POST data and GET data are retrieved from the same 
placewhen doing CGI on the iSeries. Probably not on any web server. ASP 
and stuff give you ways to get either, but not the i.

I forget the details, but we check both in our CGI stuff. Net.Data is 
just a thin cover over CGI, after all.

I think you have to use QtmhGetEnv with the environment variable name of 
'QUERY_STRING' to get the POST data. 'CONTENT_LENGTH' is not relevant 
that I know of to POST data.

Vern

On 8/5/2010 12:07 PM, dmosley@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I have done your suggestion about passing the POST data directly, but was
> HOPING to not do that.
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> What is odd about your comments of parent/child is that passing the data
> in GET works just fine, but POST
> doesn't.
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> Thanks, Dennis
> dave
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> David L. Mosley, Jr.
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> I don't believe the RPG program will run as a child in your current
> environment.  (If I'm wrong, skip to paragraph 2.)  In that case, you
> would
> need to pass the POST data to the RPG program directly.
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> If the RPG runs as a child in your current environment:  Do you know the
> concept of exporting, and can it be applied here?  This acts just like a
> variable has not been exported.  The parent cannot see it, but the
> child(ren) cannot.
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> Dennis Lovelady
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> > Before I ask my question, please don't ask WHY I'm using Net.Data.  It
> > is
> > what it is.  :>
> >
> > Anyway, I have a Net.Data script that is making a DirectCall to an RPG
> > program.
> > The call that I am making to the Net.Data script has POST data, and
> > when I
> > make the
> > call to the RPG program, to extract it out, via QtmhRdStin, it seems to
> > have disappeared.
> >
> > However, doing a GetEnv for the CONTENT_LENGTH shows that it is in
> > there,
> > still.  But, yet,
> > nothing comes out of the QtmhRdStin.
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