Hi Nico

Is there any way I can check for some kind of code from the banks' server to
see whether the process was successfull?. As I've said, checking for a text
string like "The account nr is not the required length" is not the best of
ways to check for feedback.
Thanks
Tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nico Baggus" <nico_baggus_at_compuserve.com>
To: <curl_at_contactor.se>
Sent: 08 August 2000 12:34
Subject: RE: problems on communicating with a banks server

> Hi,
>
> I have more or less the same problem.
> The processing of a post might invoke timeouts if
> responces are kept waiting too long.
> So I have to start to report a page with 200 back
> to tell something was correctly received.
> Later on I use some strict codes
> like
> ==>OK and
> ==>ERRORS and
> ==>WARNINGS
> followed by ---<original text lines>
>
> if something happens.
>
> These come in <PRE> </PRE> blocks....
> (so no special HTML layout is needed to send error messages. (In this case
> I'm on the Publishers side of things).
>
> Just waiting for all processing to complete and answer
> the final status as a 200 or different HTTP error code might just take too
> long. (as it is about uploading & processing files).
>
> This ==> and --- signaling is done by the CGI
> processing around the uploads, and "applications" are
> generaly ignorant about being run within the
> cgi script. (The can also be run from a commandline
> if needed.)
>
>
> regards,
> Nico Baggus
>
>
Received on 2000-08-08