[Long] Moving a REST request from Desktop to Server

[Andre Garzia]

Hi,

I would shell() to curl or a shell script and parse the result.

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On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Malte Brill via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to move a request I do from a desktop app to a liveCode server
> script and am facing the problem that some of the stuff I use (most of it
> libURL stuff) is not available on the server. Now I wonder how I could
> translate it…
>
> Scenario is the following:
> Problem is libURLLastRHHeaders() is unavailable on server and can not
> easiely be copied from libURL
> Anyone got an idea?
>
> local sCookieHeader
>
> on mouseUp
>         local tURL,tUser,tPassWord,tCookie,tSubmitId,tsubmit,tJson,
> tJsonArray
>         local test
>         try
>                 set the httpHeaders to empty
>                 put „aUser" into tUser
>                 put „aPassword" into tPassWord
>                 put "264812" into tSubmitID
>                 put "Log+in" into tSubmit
>                 get libURLFormData("userName", tUser,"password",
> tPassword,"submit",tSubmit,"submitID",tSubmitId) — not available on
> Server, but can be copied from libURL
>                 post it to url "http://test.com/login.php"
>                 _storeCookies libURLLastRHHeaders() — needed to
> authenticate. libURLLastRHHeaders unavailable
>                 set the httpHeaders to sCookieHeader
>                 put fld "URL" into tURL
>                 put URL tURL into tJson
>         catch theErr
>                 put theErr
>         end try
> end mouseUp
>
>
> ## Parse header returned from a server and create a cookie header that
> ## can be sent back: Cookie: cookie1;cookie2;cookie3;...
> private command _StoreCookies pHeader
>         local theCharNo,theCookieLine,theLineNo,theOffset
>         put empty into sCookieHeader
>         put 0 into theOffset
>         repeat forever
>                 put lineoffset("Set-Cookie:", pHeader, theOffset) into
> theLineNo
>                 if theLineNo > 0 then
>                         add theOffset to theLineNo
>                         put line theLineNo of pHeader into theCookieLine
>                         delete word 1 of theCookieLine ## Set-Cookie:
>                         put offset(";", theCookieLine) into theCharNo
>                         if theCharNo > 0 then
>                                 delete char theCharNo to -1 of
> theCookieLine
>                         end if
>                         put theCookieLine & ";" after sCookieHeader
>                         put theLineNo into theOffset
>                 else
>                         exit repeat
>                 end if
>         end repeat
>         if the last char of sCookieHeader is ";" then
>                 delete the last char of sCookieHeader
>         end if
>         if sCookieHeader is not empty then
>                 put "Cookie: " before sCookieHeader
>         end if
>         return empty
> end _StoreCookies
>
>
>
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