HTTP Connection Error (404: Resource Not Found)

[Former Member]

Hi Team,

I tried using the XML weather feed from Thomas Jung's Blog

Got 404: Resource Not Found Error

We are on ECC 6.0, ABAP 7.0, Support Pack 15 and the SAP note 858970 is already part of the system.

When the URL given below is used, I still get the 404 error:

http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/19063?cc=&dayf=5&link=xoap&prod=xoap&par=107721**&key=b05**********

(I have masked the User ID and Passsword above)

I don't know what am I missing here?

1) Are there any firewall related settings in the system? How do I find out?

2) Is there a proxy setting? I don't see any proxy settings in the IE->options->LAN settings. How to find out?

3) When I use the above URL directly in IE 6.0, I get the result correctly, BUT when I use the HTTP client, I get the 404 error. Are there any other settings or system parameters, or SICF settings? I checked SMICM and the HTTP service is active and running on port 8000. I also used the Web-Sniffer.net website to look at the header and could not find anything wrong.

Please help in resolving this issue. I've checked all the forums and seen a lot of entries but nothing is working for me. I also tried the standard program RSHTTP01 as mentioned in one of Brian's weblog and got the following error:

Create client counter: 1

communication_error( receive )

code: 400 message: ICM_HTTP_CONNECTION_FAILED

communication_error

Any pointers or help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Sanjay

[GrahamRobbo · Accepted solution]

Hi Sanjay,

a good starting point would be to check you can access the resource from a web browser that is running on the SAP application server.

Cheers

Graham Robbo

[Former Member]

Thank you Graham,

1) I tried the standard program SAPHTML_DEMO1 (HTML control for WWW browser) and passed the URL. It works there. (Don't know why it gives the 404 error in the weather example)

2) I tried to ping xoap.weather.com. Did not work. When I ping sap.com, it works. Again don't know why the weather URL does not work from ECC system.

Any other thoughts

Thanks much for your time.

[GrahamRobbo]

Hi Sanjay,

it is not clear from your post if in step 1 you used the weather URL. If you did, and it worked, then something is wrong with your code. If it didn't work, but other URL's did work then it seems you have some sort of selective filtering on your corporate firewall. Perhaps you need to talk to your network admin guy?

Cheers

Graham Robbo