I want to connect to an external URL. According to the the book, PFAG-90UW-03 or the books provided once PF is installed, a WebRun can execute any progam located "on an external website". There is little documentation regarding UserID and Password fields. Most URLS do not require either of these parameters, but WebRun won't work if these parameters are NULL. I would assume that you could put anything in the fields and they would be ignored on connect? And what if the URL is using .htaccess and I would assume that WebRun can manage this?
Suppose I just wanted to connect to google.com, or local web server for that matter? For example, if you are running Apache on you workstation you can reference "http://localhost" in your browser.
The examples in the book use a fictitious URL http://sma.com/airfare/find.exe The documentation specifies that you would complete the WebRun parameters:
hostname: sma.com webprogram: airfare/find.exe userid: not demonstrated in the example password: not demonstrated in the example post string: Date=mm/dd/yy&Place=state Extrapolating from the given example is not objective. Does anyone out there have a WebRun node to an external site up and running?
Did you ever get this working - I see no one has responded yet? I was thinking that if Deisgner requires a username and password - I would (in TEST) add a username and password as something unique and then search for the string in the XML file of the flow and manually remove the information. (Not sure if this is your issue but it seems like if you don't require the username and password you might be able to manually remove the information.) It might be worth testing? Have you opened a helpdesk ticket with Lawson? They might have some notes from someone else that was trying to do this... Can you share what YOU are trying to accomplish with the WebRun? (what page you are trying to access and what you want to get from the site.)