jBASE 5.2.31 on Windows Server 2012. Yes thanks I saw the jCURL command and I will investigate in future to do a switch over. Anyway, I got the batch file thing to work by not calling the subroutine and instead calling the same code in 3 different places. More cleanup to do later.
Thanks :) On Friday, June 4, 2021 at 11:37:37 PM UTC+10 pfalson wrote: > What version of jBASE are you using? We support curl natively now > > > https://docs.zumasys.com/jbase/miscellaneous/jcurl/#additional-helper-functions > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 4, 2021, at 5:29 AM, Johan Liebenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Building a small batch file to run on a Window jBase server. > > Batch file executes a curl command build inside the jBase program. > > I 1st tried to EXECUTE the curl command CAPTURING RESULTS, but the remote > server returns an error. I filtered all the illegal character out of the > curl command just in case. No luck.This happens to work flawlessly on a > Linux server. > > So the next approach is to create a DOS batch file and execute the batch > file with the curl command inside the batch file. Works 1st time but then > the trouble starts: > > So I have a GOSUB RUNCMD that calls the sub below with the curl command > inside the CMD variable: > > RUNCMD: > > OSDELETE 'temp.bat' > > EXECUTE 'touch temp.bat' CAPTURING JUNK > > OSOPEN 'temp.bat' TO TEMPDOSFILE THEN > > OSBWRITE CMD ON TEMPDOSFILE AT 0 > > OSCLOSE TEMPDOSFILE > > EXECUTE 'temp.bat' CAPTURING RESULTS > > END > > OSDELETE 'temp.bat' > > RETURN > With the debugger turned on, outside RUNCMD sub, I can follow the progress > through the sub line by line, everything works and the remote server > receives the curl command correctly and returns the correct data in the > RESULTS variable. All good. When the execution gets to the RETURN command, > one expects it to jump back to the 1st line after the GOSUB RUNCMD, but > instead it jumps back to the RUNCMD: label and it repeats the sub over and > over in a loop that you can not break out of. > > Surely I am very tired because it is late and I am missing something > really really obvious. Thanks for looking :) > > -- > -- > IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. > > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jBASE" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jbase/64144341-a743-4e2b-9824-8cfda8f609f9n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jbase/64144341-a743-4e2b-9824-8cfda8f609f9n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jBASE" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jbase/df6af11c-1987-4d92-a718-8e87378be89cn%40googlegroups.com.
