Profound Logic Forums

Not sure if this is the correct forum or not but we are needing some information on interfacing from the iSeries to a WebDAV system. If anyone is doing this could you give us some helpful hints or info?

Thanks in advance and sorry if this is way off topic!!!

emhill wrote:Not sure if this is the correct forum or not but we are needing some information on interfacing from the iSeries to a WebDAV system. If anyone is doing this could you give us some helpful hints or info?

I have not done it, but from what I know about DAV, it's merely a set of additional HTTP methods. You could potentially use a tool like HTTPAPI to do this -- though, depending on the exact need, HTTPAPI might need a little tweaking to make it work.

Or, even easier, if there's a WebDAV library written in C, Java, or PHP, you could potentially just that on IBM i, and interface it to your RPG programs.

emhill wrote:Thanks in advance and sorry if this is way off topic!!!

Yeah, I guess you're right that this isn't related to Profound UI, so is off topic for this particular sub-forum. But, this site has an RPG sub-forum as well.. it'd be 100% on-topic there, assuming you're looking to use WebDAV from your RPG programs, that is.

Of course, if we wanted to keep this on topic for "profound ui", I could suggest that you create your own custom WebDAV widget that can be dragged/dropped in the designer. That might be fun! (For a geek like me, anyway). But it's probably a lot easier to implement on the server-side.

What are you using WebDAV for? Do you have a specific application that uses it, like a calendar (though, you'd probably use CalDAV for that)? Or is this some unique application?

Scott,

It is a unique application for the diesel engine business. Funny that I just started having a look at the HTTPAPI command....

Thanks!!!!

The commonplace usage of HTTPAPI involves only the GET and POST methods, so that's what you'll see a lot about.

However, within the (lower-level) persistent routines, there's a routine called http_persist_req that can send other operations besides GET and POST. AT the moment, it's not expecting the WebDAV extensions, so a bit of code mods would be needed (primarily in the do_oper routine) but these should be small changes.

So, this could get a bit complex for someone who isn't familiar with HTTPAPI's internal coding structure -- but, of course, I'm the principal author of HTTPAPI, so it's pretty easy for me.