My problem is simple:
I need a .php to run on a remote server when I click a button.
Webserver and Fhttp do not seem to work (at least not in the ways i have tried)
For one common reason:::
The UE expects some kind of “response”???
I understand why some people would want this, but how do we deal with this if we don’t?
My server does not respond, for security purposes.
If i enter my script url’s into a web browser, telnet, or any suitable http interface
The script runs on the remote server as expected, no response returned
UE appears to be expecting a response. How do i get around this and/or tell the editor
to not expect a response?
WebBrowser widget can display pages on my site,
FHttp can send/recieve requests (but i dont need this, and cannot use it)
I just want the .php to run on the remote server.
This function manipulates data outside the engine.
After extensive research into the nature of this issue, it would appear that a standard web browser includes translation code that allows an http call to act similar to a UDP, where-in a transaction response is not required.
So, to clarify my question:::
perhaps what i need is the handler format to use when establishing such a connection in UE?
i need UE to “not worry about a response”.
The problem in getting is, my button just causes a ‘web browser waiting icon’ to circle slightly above the button.
Remote .php file does not execute from within the editor.
all my other web server related functions are behaving as expected, except those in which the server does not send a transaction receipt (this is hard-level security to protect the data from being manipulated on the server).
Detail:: There is the standard connection ‘handshake’ performed by the proxy, as normal.
The transaction response that is disabled is the header data of the file being executed remotely.
I am sure there is some http:// error msg handling code to resolve this, i just have no clue what that is or how it is used when there is no data to be returned.
I understand that i can do this using the client/server UFUNCTION, and call the php on the server side via an RPC., this defeats the purpose of what i am trying to do, as this route sends massive loads of unnecessary data back and forth from client to server.
the application is basically a stand-alone with networking features to facilitate external communications.
(not to the UServer, but to an independent web server)
the application itself does not need to bring in data while performing the calls on the remote server.
i don’t need to “know” the action was successful, as that information is back fed into the world through the WebBrowser widget, and other Http connections i have already set up.
Let me rephrase that, the data being returned is NULL But UE is ‘waiting for a response’ or at least a response that contains “some data”. Then there may also be the issue of i am not telling it “to do” anything with the data it is not receiving.
The external server functions property if the file is executed in a web browser application, E, firefox, Safari, Etc. E.g.: “ Domain Marketplace “
And just returns a blank page, no data other than the file name, even when you View Source.
This is a serverside implementation, and is essential.
Ue does not need to view the blank page.