Thanks for responding. The result is always empty and so is the container it. All of the information about the local host is identical to the remote host, even the port number.
I have a guess about the source of the problem which I'm going to look at. The FileMaker portal that I tested on the local host had only four records in it, but the portal on the remote host had about 160. It appears that accessing records in a portal and generating the corresponding web page through FM's Web Companion is considerable slower than accessing the records in the master file directly. Doing so in a browser takes more than thirty seconds for the portal (closer to fifty seconds, actually) versus three or four seconds for the master file, and I'm wondering if MC is not somehow timing out before it gets any of the data. I think I can test this by bringing the big portal file over to the local host to see if I can access the records. If the problem is repeated, then I'd keep trying with fewer and fewer records. If timing out is, in fact, the problem, perhaps there is a way to make MC wait longer. Does that sound like a reasonable approach?
Greg
Gregory Lypny
Associate Professor
John Molson School of Business
Concordia University
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On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 12:03 PM, Dave Cragg wrote:
Message: 1 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:35:17 +0000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dave Cragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Weird URL thing Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]At 12:01 pm -0500 30/10/02, Gregory Lypny wrote:It works fine when I test it on localhost using the MC post command asSome quick thoughts ...
username:password@localhost/path/FMPro?-db=dbName.fp5&- lay=layoutName&-format=fileName.txt&-findAll
and the container "it" returns all of the records I want.
But when I test it on the remote machine (simply replacing localhost
with the remote host address, and all files the same), the variable
"it" is returned empty --- no data! I confirmed that it is not a
problem with FileMaker because I'm able to type the above command
string into a browser URL field and the remote host will generate a
web page with all the data. All of my other types of MC posts to
FileMaker on the remote host work wonderfully and those include
accessing portal fields (thanks to the thoughtful suggestions of
members of this list).
Did you check the result following the post call? Was any error returned?
What happens if you use get instead of post? (I'm assuming the
browser uses get and not post.)
Did you include "http://"; at the front of your url?
Do you have the correct port number (if it's not 80) for the remote host?
Cheers
Dave
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