Re: Igor, pAPP toolkit questions

From: Igor Tandetnik (itandetnik_at_mvps.org)
Date: 11/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:29:59 -0500

"Josh Mclaren" <optics201@optonline.com> wrote in message
news:72494446.0411221935.4f759181@posting.google.com
> I am having trouble implementing what you suggested in the following
> post, with the pAPP toolkit. :
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&selm=OsmO3iP5DHA.1664%40TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl
>
> When I simply take the pAPP toolkit and replace the
> HTTP_QUERY_RAW_HEADERS_CRLF | HTTP_QUERY_FLAG_REQUEST_HEADERS
> QueryInfo call
>
> with
>
> HTTP_QUERY_AUTHORIZATION | HTTP_QUERY_FLAG_REQUEST_HEADERS
>
> the buffer is always an invalid pointer.

I'm not sure what that means. You pass the buffer to the method, right?
So make sure it is valid. Am I missing something obvious?

Also, make sure you don't call too early. You definitely need to do it
after IAuthenticate::Authenticate returns. Probably the best place is in
BINDSTATUS_SENDINGREQUEST notification - by this time, all the request
headers have been fully prepared.

> I've also played around with
> GetBindInfo off of the m_spInternetBindInfo object. I've been able to
> use that succesfully to retreive post Data (though I'm not sure that
> is the best way)

It is the best and only way. The POST data is supplied in BINDINFO
structure.

> and I thought I might be able to use it similarly to
> retrieve BINDSTRING_USERNAME as some MSDN code retrieves MIME types.

I found GetBindString to be very inconsistent. It works for some strings
but not others, with no apparent reason. Usually there are alternative
ways to get the same information, so I haven't spent much time on it.

> Another question I had is to ask is what is the best way to examine
> the html content that is received with the current toolkit.

IInternetProtocol::Read is the only place you can see it.

> Ideally
> I'd like the entire message rather than dealing with QueryInfo's
> splitting of the headers etc.

Now I'm confused. Are you asking about response body (presumably HTML
content), or response headers? 

-- 
With best wishes,
    Igor Tandetnik
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necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to 
land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly 
overhead. -- RFC 1925