I think I might have been a slight bit confusing in the email. I need to
have apache be able to *recieve* the POST and GET requests. I know how to
send the XML to another server, I just need to know how to get *my*
server to handle the requests/data from other clients..
Geoff
This one time, at band camp, cloudnine wrote:
> HTTP::Request is your friend. It generates an HTTP request, whether it be
> a get or a post.
>
> LWP::UserAgent actually performs the request for you.
>
> ## example:
> my $request = HTTP::Request->new(POST=>'http://foo.bar.com');
> $request->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
> $request->content("XMLStuff=$scalarWithYourXML"); ## add the xml to the post.
>
> my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
> my $response;
> $response = $ua->simple_request($request);
> unless ( $response->is_success ) {
> ## do what must be done in event of a failure
> }
>
> ## whatever else....
>
> The receiving server could grab the XMLStuff as $r->param('XMLStuff');
> Hope i answered your question!
>
> - Matt Avitable
>
>
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Geoffrey Gallaway wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to find a way to do XML over HTTP. I have a project at work
> > that I'm doing where we have a XML based system. The system would connect
> > to port 80 and do XML over HTTP. I'm not exactly sure what this entails
> > but I'm guessing using the HTTP protocall to send XML. So, you get the
> > HTTP methods (GET, POST, HEAD, etc) and headers (Date, Server,
> > Content-Type, etc) but with XML data instead of HTML. Now, I understand I
> > could easily use apache to send XML data (GET) but I'm not to sure how I
> > should handle receiving XML (POST). I definetly want to do the XML parsing
> > and such with perl (I've been playing with XML::Parser, very cool). What
> > am I missing?
> >
>
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