You can use the parameters provided here to configure the
HTTP Client Connector.
The Connector has the following parameters:
- HTTP URL
- The HTTP page to request.
Note: If you use an https:// address,
you might also require to import a certificate, for example, if the
server uses a self-signed certificate. Click Get Certificate to
contact the server on the specified URL and install the server's certificate
in the truststore, if required.
- Request Method
- The HTTP method to use when requesting the page. See http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Methods.html for
more information
- Username
- If set the HTTP Authorization header is set using this parameter
along with the Password parameter.
- Password
- Used if Username is specified.
- Proxy
- If specified, connect to a proxy server rather than directly to
the host specified in the URL. The format is proxyhost:port (for
example, proxy:8080), where proxy is
the name of the proxyhost, and 8080 is the port number
to use.
- Proxy Server User Name
- Specifies the user name to authenticate to the proxy server, if
the proxy server that you use requires authentication.
- Proxy Server Password
- Specifies the password for the proxy server user name that you
specified.
- File to HTTP Body
- The full path of the file. The file contents are copied as HTTP
body in the HTTP message. This overrides any possible Parser processing.
- Content Type
- If set, this will be used as the http.content-type for
the file sent as specified by the File to HTTP Body parameter,
or other HTTP Body Attribute that may be
present in the Entry (see the HTTP Attributes described above).
- File from Response HTTP Body
- The full path of the file. The body of the response HTTP message
is copied to the file.
- Timeout
- Timeout in seconds for each of the operations: connecting to the
server and receiving response from it. A timeout of zero is interpreted
as an infinite timeout. If the timeout expires, a java.net.SocketTimeoutException is
raised (for more information see the online documentation for java.net.Socket).
- Detailed Log
- If this parameter is checked, more detailed log messages are generated.
You select a Parser from the Parser pane; select the parser
by clicking the top-left Select Parser button. If specified,
this Parser is used to generate the http.body content when
sending data. The parser gets an entry with those attributes where
the name does not begin with http. Also, this Parser (if specified)
gets the http.body for additional parsing when receiving data.
However, do not specify system:/Parsers/ibmdi.HTTP, because a message
body does not contain another message.