Re: Calling Curl from RPG or CL

I created the ILEcurl some years ago. It is supersimple - one service
program that simply wraps the PASE call.

I have received a lot of positive feedback ( thanx !!) and one particular
thing I did not consider as a feedback is - the curl uses openSsl ( yes I
knew that) - but where SQL uses axis meaning GSkit, same as Scotts - curl
has a benefit for sites where you need to connect to a "old" version of TLS
.. Curl ( with some options ) allows that. It allows you to also access
sites with self signed certificates and much more. It supports all these
edecases . It supports FTP, SMTP, even telnet ... great job cUrl !!

So when the native tools fail, cUrl comes to rescue.

As we speak i am using it for Jira integration at a customer, where all the
native solutions fails .. ( for a reason i don't have time to find out)

ILEcurl is open source - pull, build and enjoy:

https://github.com/NielsLiisberg/ILEcurl












On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM cesco via RPG400-L <
rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am new to CURL.
one calls curl from RPGLE or CLLE.

Generically and personally (CURL beside) to invoke a PASE binary without
external dependencies (living off the land...) I just use STRQSH to the
binary or a shell .sh script that wraps the binary.
like i,e, STRQSH CMD('/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/php
/scripts/sftpupload_ifsdir.php')

I tend to avoid to string concatenations and stuff in CL, a lot of time is
lost debugging this kind of things that should be trivial and simple, so
to pass parameters down from ILE to the PASE I usually use environmental
variables (benefits of having basically a named dictionary, each variable a
name) and any unix language can then access them.
This I found is pretty robust in time.

To get the a value back from the called PASE in ILE, to work out an
internal protocol, the only approach I've found is use the return value of
the PASE monitoring for escape messages setting QIBM_QSH_CMD_ESCAPE_MSG





--
This is the RPG programming on IBM i (RPG400-L) mailing list
To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: https://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l
or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at https://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.

Please contact support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for any subscription related
questions.