Re: HTTPAPI: Output to File changing brackets

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/30/2018 9:52 AM, Kurt Anderson wrote:
> Recently a vendor of ours changed from providing an on-premise
> solution to requiring that we use their web services instead. In
> initial testing, I was getting the data response back to the RPG
> program directly and everything was fine.  However due to the high
> volume of data, I now have the API output the data to the IFS, and
> then I parse it from there.  However, when I have the API output the
> file to the IFS, it's replacing the brackets as if it thinks they are
> a part of the data.   The quick solution was to have the process fix
> the brackets, but I feel both the API changing the brackets as well
> as me fixing them is taking way too long.

I'm no expert, but I suspect it's because the content type is 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'.

It should probably be returning 'application/xml' or 'text/xml'.

david