Re: how to postback to a different URL than the one making the request?

On May 31, 4:00 pm, [email protected] (Ted Behling) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To get a useful answer, you're going to have to break down your problem
> a bit more clearly.  LWP has nothing to do with XML, specifically.  All
> it does it make HTTP requests (usually GET or POST).  When you say "send
> data", are you talking about making a POST request, or replying to an
> incoming request?  The latter would not use LWP at all.  If you were to
> perhaps reply with a list of the exact steps required by your algorithm,
> we could probably point you in the right direction.
>
> Ted Behling
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vidals [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 4:32 PM
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: how to postback to a different URL than the one making the
>
> request?
>
> I'm writing an XML function that will listen for requests for data and
> then respond with the data. Simple enough; however, the data needs to be
> sent to the URL specified in the request. For example, the resultant
> data may needed bywww.123.comone time andwww.abc.comanother time.
>
> I use LWP all the time for requesting web pages, but can somebody
> provide some guidance as to how LWP can be used to send data? I'm
> confused.
>
> Thanks!
>
> RE: how to postback to a different URL than the one making the request?

You're right perhaps, I'm not thinking about my problem correctly. I'm
going to receive a request that is in XML format, like so:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE RankRequest [
<!ELEMENT RankRequest (authorization,request,response)>
<!ELEMENT authorization (authtoken,guid,postbackurl)>
<!ELEMENT request (engines,release,keywords)>
<!ELEMENT response (result)+>
<!ELEMENT authtoken (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT guid (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT postbackurl (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT engines (engine)+>
<!ELEMENT release (title,body)>
<!ELEMENT keywords (keyword)+>
<!ELEMENT result (engine,keyword,errorcode,datetime,pagerank,html)>
<!ELEMENT title (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT body (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT errorcode (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT datetime (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT pagerank (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT html (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT engine (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT keyword (#PCDATA)>
]>
<RankRequest>
	<authorization>
		<authtoken>sampletoken</authtoken>
		<guid>sampleguid</guid>
		<postbackurl>sample.url.com</postbackurl>
	</authorization>

The postbackurl, sample.url.com is where I need to send the data and
I'm not sure how to do this. I thought lwp would come to the rescue
since I am so use to using it, but perhaps my thinking is in error and
LWP is not the right solution here?