Hi list,







I am developing a perl script to check the status of a database.



The Scenario:

I have a

http://<webserver>/xxx/login page where I enter the username, password and the schema information and then, when a button ‘login’ is pressed, it takes us to one more page



http://<webserver>/xxx/main where I need to select a DB and then, click ‘GO’ button and this is where I can start doing many things inside the database.



If the DB is down, we get a message ‘DOWN DB’ or else, we have a message ‘succcess’. I want to use these return string from the web server in my perl script and check the status.



All the above can be achieved by passing the below string in the browser (where the username, password and the schema is for the fields in the ‘login’ page and the contextid specifies the database which has to be selected in the ‘main’ page) ...

http://<webserver>/xxx/main?USE_CASE=GO&schema=TEST&contextid=TEST&userna me=xyz&password=aaa



When the above string is given in the browser, it works and takes me to the page that I need if the DB is up and running.



But when I use the POST command (after connecting to the web server) in the perl script, I get ‘302 Moved Temporarily...error. This is my POST command



POST /xxx/main HTTP/1.0

Content-Length: 64

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded



USE_CASE=GO&schema=TEST&contextid=TEST&username=xy z&password=aaa



And the response is:



HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily

Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:39:12 GMT

Server: Rational_Web_Platform/1.0 (Win32) mod_jk/1.2.0

Set-Cookie: cqweb_session=hovbuWERz4GF@F2jlBUh4zDZEaW119p;Path =/cqweb

Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=2C8EF55F0CB06682DD2CB40CD3017BC6;Path=/cqweb

Location: http://localhost/xxx/main?null

Content-Length: 0

Connection: close

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8



I am not sure what I missed, any help would be highly appreciated as this is very critical my work.



This is a Apache-Tomcat web server.



Thanks a ton

Is main a page or a folder, if a folder then possibly because when you type the URL into the browser it receives the 302 as well but silently redirects to the default page for the folder. Try adding the full URL:
POST /xxx/main/index.jsp HTTP/1.0

Replace index.jsp with the name of the default page for main.



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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

Thanq for your reply, Joe.

I used the session ID on the reply from the server and posted the same message again to the webserver and it works now.

Thanks again...