How to post from a form to TN directly

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Im having problems posting from an HTML form directly to TN. Im trying to POST to the wm.tn:Receive service but the XML is always unmatched. Send the same XML from the TNConsole and it works. Looks like the content comes in as application/x-wmidatabin even after I specify the content type in the form…

Any ideas on what I need to do to post an XML directly to TN???

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If you are posting XML directly to TN from a third party client such as a web client (browser), you must post to a variable named $xmldata, or else, the document will not be recognized. This is somewhere in the manual.

Other work arounds for this is to post to a pre-receiving service and set a content type that will then submit to TN.

If you are using a webMethods custom client, use the TContext class and the variables can have any name.

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You can also put the XML as the body of the post (e.g. not using name/value pairs) as long as you set the content type (text/xml).

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The problem is that in HTML forms you cannot set the content type to text/xml. So when posting from web forms the only way is to set the $xmldata variable.

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I’ve not tried it myself, but if I understand correctly, the new enhanced WWW forms specification - XForms - lets you post XML document like a proper XML client (no CGI variables required, content type set to ‘text/xml’.)

XForms is a W3C recommendation. There are plug-ins for IE available. More info at:
[url=“The Forms Working Group”]http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/[/url]
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That’s right Rupinder. Should’ve put that caveat in my post. Thanks for catching that.

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Hi! Ray,

Is it compulsory to have the XML posted to TN from an external partner using $xmldata. Is it possible to handle with some other variable.
One of my client needs to have some other variable.

regards,
sandip

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Hello Everybody,
How do i post a CIDX document with Rosettanet envelope to the TN. I do have the authorization but I don’t know how to post it. Is there a form where in I can paste the content and submit it. Please let me know
Thank You
Kris