>Hi All,
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>I have a need to set up a Messaging server that will route FTP messages to/from an EDI Van. So there will be multiple cusomer profiles and the EDI van profile (inbox and outbox for each).
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>I will also need to (eventaully) add message validation logic
>I need to examine the header record of messages retrieved from the EDI VAN in order to know how to route.
>There should be a transaction log.
>There should be some facility for accomodating non-deliverable messages (maybe email to customer).
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>It seems like there must be some applcations that either do this, or provide a framework for doing this. Perhaps I don't know the proper terminology, as I cannot find anything like this in my searches. Just wondering if anybody has an suggestions?
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>Thanks!
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>David
I haven't seen anything like what you describe. OTOH, I've sort of backed into doing a lot of what you mention using Chilkat software's FTP tools. It doesn't take a whole lot of code to get in to an FTP site, list all the files, retrieve whatever you want, etc. etc. Then it's just a matter of parsing the header and sending the file(s) somewhere else. FWIW, Chilkat has numerous examples for VFP and their customer support is great.