I think this is an excellent proposal.
Regards,
Will
--- James Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've attached http-tags.jar which contains a HTTP
> tag library implementation
> I'd like to submit to the jakarta-taglibs project.
>
> The jar contains the full source and build system
> following the
> jakarta-taglibs guidelines and all source code has
> the Apache licence
> applied. (There are no dependencies on external
> software other than the JDK,
> servlets & JSP).
>
> The http tag library allows HTTP requests to be
> performed using JSP custom
> tags. I've found this particularly useful for doing
> HTTP GETs of external
> resources and performing HTTP POST operations to
> call SOAP or XML-RPC web
> services.
>
> The notation is currently very simple. It consists
> of a <http:request> tag
> for the request with optional child <http:header>
> tag for specifying HTTP
> headers and a single <http:body> tag for specifying
> a body for HTTP POSTS.
>
> For example to perform a HTTP GET:-
>
> <http:request url="http://jakarta.apache.org"
> action="GET"/>
>
> For a HTTP POST (to call a SOAP Babelfish service to
> translate some text):-
>
> <http:request
>
url="http://services.xmethods.net:80/perl/soaplite.cgi"
> action="POST">
> <http:header name="SOAPAction"
> value="urn:xmethodsBabelFish#BabelFish"/>
> <http:header name="Content-Type" value="text/xml"/>
> <http:body>
> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope
>
>
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
>
>
SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
> <SOAP-ENV:Body>
> <m:BabelFish xmlns:m="urn:xmethodsBabelFish">
> <translationmode>en_fr</translationmode>
> <sourcedata>SOAP is quite easy with
> JSP.</sourcedata>
> </m:BabelFish>
> </SOAP-ENV:Body>
> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
> </http:body>
> </http:request>
>
>
> Ultimately I'd like to extend the tag library to
> allow multipart posting of
> files and such like.
>
> Also I'd like to plug in a standard input / output
> sink mechanism (similar
> in essence to Pierre's iotransformer tag library
> proposal) - though I'd
> prefer to decouple the transformer into an
> 'InputSink' and an 'OutputSink'
> as a HTTP request may have input.and/or output.
>
> Any comments?
>
> <James/>
>
>
> James Strachan
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>
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Regards,
Will The Thrill
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