Hi,

I need to transfer DBISAM v3.27 records a government website.
Presently I know nothing about web technology (but I hope that changes
VERY quickly).

The info I have at the moment is that I must use XML for the transfer.
I am trying to get more info from the gov. department but I was given
an official 'Quick Overview' as follows:

***********************************
The Department's server comprises two servlets, an upload program and
a status-check program.   They may only be accessed via HTTPS using
basic authentication.    There are two published schemas, one for
requests to these two servers and one describing the responses that
may be returned.  Communication with the servers is via the HTTP/S
POST method, with the XML encoded records sent as a byte stream to the
open connection.
***********************************

Can someone more learned than myself give me advice on:

- is this a pretty standard way of web communication?
- is Delphi v6 capable of such a process?
- do I have to learn Java, etc.. ?

Thank you for ANY advice.

Regards,
Pat

Pat


First you need a good comms package (I recommend Synapse http://www.ararat.cz/synapse/) good software, good support.

Secondly a component that translates records to xml format (search Torry)

After that its fairly simple coding.

Roy Lambert

Roy,

Sorry, but I believe your suggestion is misleading.
Pat is most likely looking for web services solution
which should be part of Delphi Pro and Enterprise edition.
Using comm library and xml coder would be too much work
for something that is already implemented as a standard.

Pat:
You don't need Java.
Search Delphi help for WebServices. Ask your customer if
they use web services and have WSDL. If so, Delphi will
do all job for you.
If they don't implement standard web services, then you
will have to use some THTTP component (standard Indy may be
good enough for this task) to get and post data and
XML components to decode and encode them.


Michael


Roy Lambert wrote:
> Pat
>
>
> First you need a good comms package (I recommend Synapse http://www.ararat.cz/synapse/) good software, good support.
>
> Secondly a component that translates records to xml format (search Torry)
>
> After that its fairly simple coding.
>
> Roy Lambert
>

Pat,

you need the next:
- export your dataset into xml-file (with required structure/xml tags)
- upload to webserver (you may use the wininet library with wininet.pas or
TWebbrowser component to post your file)

--
With best regards, Mike Shkolnik
E-mail: mshkolnik@scalabium.com
WEB: http://www.scalabium.com

"Pat" <pat@downunder.com> wrote in message
news:0vh782lupatdi6k02pcs067bo6k1eah4ie@4ax.com...
> Hi,
>
> I need to transfer DBISAM v3.27 records a government website.
> Presently I know nothing about web technology (but I hope that changes
> VERY quickly).
>
> The info I have at the moment is that I must use XML for the transfer.
> I am trying to get more info from the gov. department but I was given
> an official 'Quick Overview' as follows:
>
> ***********************************
> The Department's server comprises two servlets, an upload program and
> a status-check program.   They may only be accessed via HTTPS using
> basic authentication.    There are two published schemas, one for
> requests to these two servers and one describing the responses that
> may be returned.  Communication with the servers is via the HTTP/S
> POST method, with the XML encoded records sent as a byte stream to the
> open connection.
> ***********************************
>
> Can someone more learned than myself give me advice on:
>
> - is this a pretty standard way of web communication?
> - is Delphi v6 capable of such a process?
> - do I have to learn Java, etc.. ?
>
> Thank you for ANY advice.
>
> Regards,
> Pat
>

Hi,

HTTPS is the standard web communication protocol running over a secure
connection (thus HTTPS instead of HTTP). POST is one of the common methods
of issuing a HTTP (or HTTPS) request. The other common one is GET - but POST
has the advantage of a larger set of data that can be sent - but the
disadvantage of having to use a larger HTTP request which is a little more
cumbersome to create.

I have had great success using INDY to sent HTTP and HTTPS requests and get
the information back. I suspect that other tools will work just as well -
but I do not know if INDY works well in Delphi 6 (I suspect it does).

No need to learn Java or Web Services based on the description they
provided.

Ron.

"Pat" <pat@downunder.com> wrote in message
news:0vh782lupatdi6k02pcs067bo6k1eah4ie@4ax.com...
> Hi,
>
> I need to transfer DBISAM v3.27 records a government website.
> Presently I know nothing about web technology (but I hope that changes
> VERY quickly).
>
> The info I have at the moment is that I must use XML for the transfer.
> I am trying to get more info from the gov. department but I was given
> an official 'Quick Overview' as follows:
>
> ***********************************
> The Department's server comprises two servlets, an upload program and
> a status-check program.   They may only be accessed via HTTPS using
> basic authentication.    There are two published schemas, one for
> requests to these two servers and one describing the responses that
> may be returned.  Communication with the servers is via the HTTP/S
> POST method, with the XML encoded records sent as a byte stream to the
> open connection.
> ***********************************
>
> Can someone more learned than myself give me advice on:
>
> - is this a pretty standard way of web communication?
> - is Delphi v6 capable of such a process?
> - do I have to learn Java, etc.. ?
>
> Thank you for ANY advice.
>
> Regards,
> Pat
>