Conga versus .Net Sockets

[paulmansour]

Has anyone messsed around with System.Net.Sockets?

Obviously for passing APL arrays back and forth, Conga is the way to go. Is there any advantage to looking into .Net for Text or Raw sockets? Do they offer any advantages, or is Conga the best way across the board?

Thanks for any comments.

[paulmansour]

One of the reasons I ask the above question is that I am having some problems connecting to a web service through a corportate firewall using Conga. It all works fine from our office, but at the customers site it doesn't work. I've been told by another vendor with a similar issue that this may have to do with the fact that I'm using the Dyalog HTTP connection instead of going through the Microsoft HTTP services and that because of this, we don't have the proxy information 'taken care of' for us by connection information provide by Internet Explorer. I'm not really sure what "Microsoft HTTP services" really is, or what this all means, but I thought maybe going thru .Net would solve the problem. Obviously I'm a bit out of my league here....

[PhilGray]

On the subject of Conga & DRC ..
I noticed there isn't a HTTPTools.HTTPPost function.
Has anyone written one yet ?
e.g. if one wanted to call a CGI-script with parameters in order to uplaod a local (Windows) file.
TIA

[paulmansour]

Phil,

I think I've done this, but not as a stand-alone function. Here is a code fragment that may be useful:

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     q←'<in>'
     q,←'<name>',tn,'</name>'
     q,←'<ops>',qt,'</ops>'
     q,←'</in>'
     l←↑⍴q
     cr nl←⎕UCS 13 10
     t←'POST /cgi-bin/xx.x?xxx=xxxx&xxx=x'
     t,←'&uid=',p.Username
     t,←'&pswd=',p.EncryptedPassword
     t,←'&sid=',p.SessionId
     t,←' http/1.0',cr,nl
     t,←'Content-Type: text/xml',cr,nl
     t,←'Content-Length: ',⍕l
     t,←4⍴cr,nl
     t,←q
     _←CreateClient 0
     r←DRC.Send'C1010't
     c←Receive p.ConnectionName


Note that CreateClient is just a cover for DRC.Clt.

[PhilGray]

Thx .. will try it.