Http get

[Pete]

If this is the wrong forum, my apologies.

A small financial institution we deal with just sent us a notice that on July 1 we will longer be getting our payment file from their FTP server, but instead they are setting up an HTTP server. I imagine that other businesses we deal with will be following suit fairly soon. What on earth is required to get a file from or put a file to an HTTP server?
As with most places, money is very tight here, so free solutions would be most sought after here. For infomational pruposes, I know CL, but my application programming skills died in 1995 when I became a sys admin. If someone could point me in a certain direction to look, I would be most grateful.

Pete

[tomholden]

Re: Http get

you should take a look at Scott Klement's HTTPAPI service programs, etc. http://www.scottklement.com/httpapi/ the save file contains example programs to use with the service program and he also has a mailing list for questions.

[bryce4president]

Re: Http get

You probably won't be getting a "file" from the HTTP server.... you'll most likely be hooking into an API that sends you an XML or JSON encoded data stream. So you sent an HTTP Get, and they send an XML or JSON response. If you've got any questions on how to handle the response feel free to post away... there are quite a few people on these forums that have done this.