The HTTP Client Connector enables you greater control on HTTP sessions than the URL Connector provides. With the HTTP Connector you can set HTTP headers and body using predefined attributes. Also, any request to a server that returns data is available for the user as attributes.
This Connector supports secure connections using the SSL protocol when so requested by the server, for example when accessing a server using the 'https://' prefix in an URL. If client-side certificates are required by the server, you will need to add these to the Troubleshooting truststore, and configure the truststore in global.properties or solution.properties. More information about this can be found in the Installing and Administering, in the section named "Client SSL configuration of IBM® Security Directory Integrator components".