Re: Programming to Rest Server

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

Moved my little java class to the AS/400 and dropped into QSH and ran it and
no problems. Works like a charm so I am left with the fact that there is
something about the HTTPAPI and our REST Sever. I am going to just call the
java class from my RPG service program to do the send. I know now that that
works.

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> This might be more work than it's worth (or maybe not if this is an
> important business need), but you could also Wireshark what is coming from
> the IBMi by putting up a simple Java Servlet on your PC and then have
> Wireshark monitor the *inbound* data.  Then do a compare/contrast on that
> data.  This will let you know if some funky translation is happening as it
> leaves the IBMi.
>
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com
> http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > At this point, I am totally lost. I wrote a little java program and ran
> > that
> > on the PC and it works. We have tried a half a dozen different tools to
> > send
> > the request and they all work. The only thing that does not work is
> sending
> > from AS/400 via HTTPAPI. I have put Wireshark on my machine and watched
> the
> > string go out from my pc and the HTTP packets are exactly the same as
> what
> > I
> > see in the HTTPAPI dump and we know that the server is receiving the
> string
> > fine and decoding it because of what we see in the dump.
> >
> > The only differences between the data being sent from each source is the
> > user-agent. The consultant insists that the error is happening because
> the
> > connection is being closed immediately. I am going to try moving the Java
> > class to my AS/400 and calling that and see if will work.
> >
> > All in all, bizarre.
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > >  Could it be URL encoding?  The fact the you can type it in a browser
> > > and it works, tells me one of two things: You are subtly keying in
> > > something that isn't in your code HTTPAPI or there is an encoding issue
> > > that the browser is managing to deal with that your code in HTTPAPI
> > > isn't handling.  I think HTTPAPI naturally encodes everything but
> > > perhaps something small is missing.  Cut and paste the browser url into
> > > HTTPAPI and test it directly perhaps?
> > >
> > > Pete Helgren
> > > Value Added Software, Inc
> > > www.valadd.com
> > >
> > >
> > > On 8/12/2010 3:27 PM, Alan Campin wrote:
> > > > I am using Scott's HTTP Api to attempt to write to a Rest Server.
> > > >
> > > > In all the previous projects that I have done using this api, the
> > targets
> > > > where outside the company servers but this server was created by a
> > > > consultant and he tells me that it is a Rest Server.
> > > >
> > > > I am using the HTTP_Url_Get_XML to send the following
> > > >
> > > > http://cre-freitrater:8080/cre_freitrater/rest/freitrater/1
> > > >
> > > > The request chain that is being sent to it looks like the following:
> > > >
> > > > GET /cre_freitrater/rest/freitrater/1 HTTP/1.1  Host:
> > cre-freitrater:8080
> > > > User-Agent: http-api/1.23
> > > >
> > > > I am getting back a 500 response saying that there was an internal
> > server
> > > > error.
> > > >
> > > > I can type the same string (the first string) into the browser and it
> > > runs
> > > > without a hitch.
> > > >
> > > > This is probably a Scott question but what has to be done different
> for
> > > REST
> > > > server than a regular HTTP server?. According to what I have read it
> > just
> > > > uses regular HTTP protocols.
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone point me to an article on writing a Rest Client in RPG?
> > > >
> > > > Any help would be appreciated.
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