Web Request

Generates a request to webservices, URLs or any HTTP/HTTPs based web protocol.

Fields¶

URL - the endpoint URL
Method - the HTTP method to be used, typically GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
Encoding - the encoding to be used, recommended (and default) is utf-8, but others also available: ansi, iso-8859-15, etc.
Timeout - timeout to wait for server response in seconds
User - [optional] HTTP authentication user for the request
Password - [optional] HTTP authentication password for the request
Accept Any Server Certificate - check this if invalid HTTPS/SSL certificates are allowed

Data Section¶

Form¶

Enter key-value pairs for each HTTP request form parameters.

This will be sent in the request as a form/multipart section.

Enter key-value pairs for each HTTP request header values.

Some common HTTP request headers you can set:

Content-Type - the type of content you be sending, like application/json or application/x-www-form-urlencoded depending of what's being set to the endpoint server.
Content-Length - the length of the content (should be automatically set by Clarive)
User-Agent - identifies who's calling the service
Cookie - sets cookies at the other side

And many more. Here's a good list of available request headers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields

Body¶

Data to be sent the request body, such as JSON data.

Sending a JSON request¶

For example, to dump a stash variable called myvar as a JSON string, put the following into the body of the request:

${json(myvar)}

Which will in turn get parsed to a JSON representation of the variable myvar.

Add the following key-value pair to the Headers section and you're all set:

Content-Type ==> application/json

Sending a SOAP request¶

To send a SOAP request, it's better to create a body template that has the correct XML structure that is needed by your SOAP server.

This is an example SOAP XML request template, with a variable, myvar that will be parsed with the stash data before being sent over.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope"
SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-encoding" >
   <SOAP-ENV:Body xmlns:m="http://www.xyz.org/quotations" >
      <m:GetQuotation>
         <m:QuotationsName>${myvar}</m:QuotationsName>
      </m:GetQuotation>
   </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Now, set the following key-value pair in the Header section:

Content-Type => text/xml; charset=utf-8

SOAP 1.1 Tester¶

Here's a good test for a SOAP 1.1 call:

URL: http://www.webservicex.net/globalweather.asmx?op=GetWeather
Method: POST

Headers:

Content-Type => text/xml; charset=utf-8,
SOAPAction => "http://www.webserviceX.NET/GetWeather"

Body:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body>
    <GetWeather xmlns="http://www.webserviceX.NET">
      <CityName>string</CityName>
      <CountryName>string</CountryName>
    </GetWeather>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

SOAP 1.2 Tester¶

URL: http://www.webservicex.net/globalweather.asmx?op=GetWeather
Method: POST