Andrew Cartledge wrote:
>
> My brain hurts.
>
> Can somebody tell me if this is possible or just wishful thinking.
>
> We have an application with data held in image d/bases.
>
> We work in cobol so alternative languages are non starters.

Well, you knew I would mention Perl anyway, didn't you?  ;-)

> A third party, who knows little of the 3k (shame on them), is developing
> the web site.
>
> We want to post info to their web system.
>
> Can we post via apache to their URL the info required in an XML format.
>
> If so, how?

The PERL LWP module makes it fairly easy to write Perl scripts that behave just
like web browsers.  A long time ago I used LWP (on an HPUX machine) to interact
with another web site where I had to HTTP POST stuff to a CGI form.  LWP should
work just fine on MPE.

http://search.cpan.org/search?module=LWP

- Mark B.