From 04d0f9ff4a1fe7c464673cf23db1eb9c38298e07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Henson <ehenson238@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 11:41:17 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Using a POST

There seems to be a Node limitation of the GET path size.
---
 lib/irest.js | 15 +++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/irest.js b/lib/irest.js
index 748995b8..c96c0da8 100644
--- a/lib/irest.js
+++ b/lib/irest.js
@@ -24,9 +24,14 @@ const iRestHttp = (callback,xhost,xport,xpath,xdatabase,xuser,xpassword,xipc,xct
         + "&xmlout=" + xml_output_max_size);
   // myibmi/cgi-bin/xmlcgi.pgm?xml
   let options = {
+    method: 'POST',
     host: xhost,
-	port: xport,
-    path: xpath + '?' + xml_enc
+    port: xport,
+    path: xpath,
+    headers: {
+      'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
+      'Content-Length': Buffer.byteLength(xml_enc)
+    }
   };
   const httpCallback = (response) => {
     let str = '';
@@ -40,7 +45,9 @@ const iRestHttp = (callback,xhost,xport,xpath,xdatabase,xuser,xpassword,xipc,xct
     });
   }
   // make the call
-  http.request(options, httpCallback).end();
+  let req = http.request(options, httpCallback);
+  req.write(xml_enc);
+  req.end();
 }
 
-exports.iRestHttp = iRestHttp;
\ No newline at end of file
+exports.iRestHttp = iRestHttp;