{"id":214,"date":"2025-10-24T06:45:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T04:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silverice.it\/IpercubeTechWP1\/?page_id=214"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:39:05","slug":"abap-http-functions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.silverice.it\/IpercubeTechWP1\/abap\/abap-http-functions\/","title":{"rendered":"ABAP HTTP Functions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Managing files in web server via HTTP<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I wrote these ABAP functions when I had to read\/write from a BSP application a lot of PDF from\/to a SAP Portal used as repository (PDF was stored in KM). Below the ABAP functions which reflect four methods supported by HTTP Protocol<\/a> 1.0 (HEAD, GET, PUT, DELETE<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using the HTTP 1.1 protocol, an HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring<\/a> (WEBDAV), two additional methods are available (COPY and MKCOL). The web server must support the HTTP 1.1 protocol, but today all of them support this extension. So I completed the job with the functions to copy files and create directories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using the above functions, I also wrote an additional one to RENAME files in HTTP server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If a web server is WEBDAV enabled, it’s possible to link custom properties to every file (for example a title, a project code, etc.). For this purpose, I wrote two functions that read and write custom properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here the functions:<\/p>\n\n\n