HTTP functions facilitate the handling of HTTP requests within web services. Likewise, SOAP functions facilitate the handling of SOAP requests within web services.

The following functions are available:

• HTML_DECODE function [Miscellaneous]
• HTML_ENCODE function [Miscellaneous]
• HTTP_BODY function [HTTP]
• HTTP_DECODE function [HTTP]
• HTTP_ENCODE function [HTTP]
• HTTP_HEADER function [HTTP]
• HTTP_VARIABLE function [HTTP]
• NEXT_HTTP_HEADER function [HTTP]
• NEXT_HTTP_VARIABLE function [HTTP]
• NEXT_SOAP_HEADER function [SOAP]
• SOAP_HEADER function [SOAP]

There are also many system procedures available for web services. See Web services system procedures.