com.HTTPRequest.beginXmlRequest

Syntax

beginXmlRequest()
  RETURNING writer xml.StaxWriter

1. writer is the xml.StaxWriter to be used to write the HTTP request.

Usage

The beginXmlRequest() starts a streaming HTTP request and returns an xml.StaxWriter object ready to send XML to the server.

Supported methods are PUT and POST.

The default Content-Type header is text/xml, but it can be changed if of the form */xml or */*+xml. For example: application/xhtml+xml.

In HTTP 1.1, if the body size is greater than 32 KB, the request will be sent in several chunks of the same size.

In case of error, the method throws an exception and sets the STATUS variable with the appropriate error number.