I've asked IBM to consider publishing this on several occasions. I was wanting to create a client in PHP using their socket library.
I did get as far as tracing the network packets for a UniObjects connection, and it looks like someone with time to spare (ie. not me!) could work out the protocol: it looked pretty simple and unencrypted (so long as you don't use SSL of course). Brian > From: doug chanco > on aix 5.2/ uv 10.2.x is it possible to directly talk > to the uvrpc without using uniobjects (ie. via a > direct socket call). If this is possible can anyone > share how they did it (ie what did you send/receive) > or any special things you had to do to get it to work. Any application that uses a socket expects specific sequences of characters from a compatible client. Unless you know that protocol you won't be able to create a compatible client. It sounds like this is the spec you desire. I don't think IBM has published the API to the UVRPC interface and I doubt they would. Unlike public protocols like Telnet, HTTP, SMTP, and hundreds of others published as "RFC" documents, proprietary, closed-loop protocols like UVRPC are rarely published, and don't need to be because the one and only client should always be available. Security concerns for the publisher (IBM) also would usually discourage publication of the protocol details. If you get the API for the client you could possibly create a new compatible server using sockets. This would allow any client in the field to use your server instead of the default UVRPC server. That opens all sorts of licensing issues. In short, I don't think you'll get a solid answer to this. So why do you want to do this? Maybe another solution to your primary problem is available. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
