iWay Service Manager Suite of HTTP Tools

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iWay Service Manager (iSM) offers a full complement of HTTP services that are designed specifically to be used in transactional situations. These services include client and server-side, RFC-compliant capabilities for HTTP, HTTPS, and nHTTP.

This section describes features in the iSM HTTP suite of tools for the client side and the server side of the HTTP suite.


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Client Suite

The HTTP client suite allows iSM to connect to and interact with an HTTP, HTTPS, or nHTTP server. The client is capable of detecting the existence of a file on the remote server and reacting to this existence (through an iSM HTTP, HTTPS, or nHTTP listener).

The reaction of the client based on the existence of a file could be as simple as retrieving the file. It can also involve a complex iSM process flow that includes a series of steps that can manipulate that file or a group of files on the remote system or other systems that iSM is capable of accessing.


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Sample Applications

The HTTP client suite of tools can be used to handle a variety of application requirements, such as:


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Server Suite

The HTTP server suite of tools provides two listeners:

Both listeners have the same characteristics. The listeners can be configured to interact with the client in the same way that any HTTP/nHTTP server would. For example, handling the request of the client (send, receive, rename, delete, and so on) as the server. The advantage of the HTTP server suite of tools is the ability to configure the listeners to use the file(s) that are received as messages that can be used to initiate a complex iSM process flow. Corresponding results are then returned from those process flows.

Security

The HTTP server suite of tools can be configured to handle login security using standard server authentication realms (LDAP, RDBMS, text based property file, Kerberos, and so on) as well as a complete directory authorization capability and user role tracking.


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Sample Applications

The HTTP server suite of tools can be used to handle a variety of application requirements, such as:


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Common Listener Functionality

All listeners offer the standard server startup failure flows to handle processing issues when the listener begins and when specific error conditions occur during the operation of the listener.


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