Alexandre,

I have access to the subscribed site but it is not a web service.

I suppose that *I* could make a web service at my end, to go get the stuff I need from them. If that is what you are getting at, then I may well try that later, if project time permits.

Right now it is just easier for me to use wwIPStuff directly to directly access the subscribed site.

Is that what you are meaning, or am I missing something magical about Web Services? I *am* web-challenged, as is surely evident by now.

thanks


>Jim Still not seeing why you cannot use web services for this task unless you don't want to use it or you don't have access to the subscribed site this can be the only reason for that since you can do what you want with web services did you read my article in this month magazine I used a web service to get and post files to my server.
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>>I guess I was imprecise in what I need to do.
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>>I will have both a web-based form and a workstation-based application, each of which, independently of each other, will at some point in its processin need to:
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>>1) Open a connection at a subscribed secured site that does NOT use Web Services or XML
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>>2) Send a string of betwee 400-500 characters max. TO them that describes, in their very fixed format "input" specifications, exactly what I want out of them.
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>>3) Obtain the response from them, which will come in the form of a string varying betwee 1600-16000 characters in a very fixed format for me to parse/interpret/use.
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>>My hope to use HTTPGetEx of wwIPStuff seems dashed because AddPostKey needs a "key" and the other end (subscribed to by us) does not have any key or anything - they just want the data in a string of 400-500 chars.
>>I have looked at the code for HTTPGetEx and it looks like I could change it to ignore the need for a key and just take the single string of data. But I don't know if that would pass through the WIN HttpSendRequest function or if doing something like that would gum other things up.
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>>I don't see any other part of wwIPStuff (or WebConnect) that will let me do this, but then I don't know how to interpret all this stuff.
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>>I'm hopeful that I can do it, because it seems like a straightfoerward enough thing that others would want to do too on a regular basis.
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>>Any ideas greatfully accepted.
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>>Thanks
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>>>Jim why not what seems to me is that you need to develop something on the server side and on the client side so on the server side is the web service and on the client side is tthe calls to that web service unless I have misread what you need.
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>>>>Alexandre,
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>>>>I would love to have the opportunity to use XML and Web Services (still looking for my first chance to use both) but this is to/from a long established service that does not offer it.
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>>>>Jim
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>>>>>Hi Jim why don't you use a Web Service for that.
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>>>>>>I have a need to send a chunk of strictly character data (with embedded spaces, apostrophes, etc.) then get some returned data, all over a secure connection.
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>>>>>>It had been my intention to use wwIPStuffs HTTPConnect/HTTPGetEx/HTTPClose but on further review of the HTTPGetEx parameters I don't see where/how to specify the chunk of data that I need to send. All of this does not involve any displayed pages - it is all under the hood in a B2B style setup.
>>>>>>I can see AddPostKey as a way to get the data that I want to send recognized for sending, but the other end will not be looking for anything but data to be coming in, so I don't see how that can work.
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>>>>>>Can someone please advise a web-challenged person how to accomplish this?
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>>>>>>Thanks in advance