Data Transformation Engine HTTP Adapter Reference Guide

HTTP Adapter Reference Guide

Chapter 1 - HTTP Adapter

This chapter introduces the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) adapter. The HTTP

adapter provides support for Proxy servers and Secure Socket Layer (SSL)

protocol, which is required to process HTTPS (secure) URLs. .

Overview

The HTTP adapter is used to transfer data to and from an HTTP(S) web server. If

you have a Command Server, an Event Server, or Platform API on one platform,

you can use the HTTP adapter to transfer data to an HTTP(S) Web server on

another platform.

Known Limitations

The HTTP adapter does not support:

♦ Document caching

♦ Content Codings such as x-gzip, x-compress, or deflate

♦ Multiparts and multipart/byte ranges

♦ #markers

System Requirements

The minimum system requirements and operating system requirements for the

HTTP adapter are detailed in the release notes. It is assumed that a Command

Server has already been installed on the computer where the adapter is to be

installed for run-time purposes.

See the Getting Started book for details about the installation program.

Additional requirements for the HTTP adapter:

♦ TCP/IP must be installed on the machine where the HTTP adapter is installed.

♦ The machine where the HTTP adapter is installed must be able to access the

desired HTTP(S) server over a TCP/IP network.