HTTP POST request with universal display

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HTTP POST request with universal display

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Hio,

Is it possible to initiate a POST request with the data from a universal display?
We would like to call a web service with it and process the received data.

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Steve,

I would suggest consuming the web service directly from your RPG program using something like HTTPAPI or CGIDEV2. Our Universal Display Files are intended to produce dynamic text output.

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Re: HTTP POST request with universal display

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Steve,

Are you asking if there's a way to make an HTTP POST request from an RPG program? If so, you could use HTTPAPI for this. HTTPAPI is an open source tool that I wrote for making client-side HTTP requests from RPG. There are other tools like this out there as well, such as Brad Stone's GETURI.


Glenn,

I don't understand how CGIDEV2 would be used, here. CGIDEV2 is a set of server-side routines for writing web applications. It's very much like our Universal displays, except that it uses subprocedure calls instead of Open Access. How would CGIDEV2 help him make a POST request?
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