General options you need to enter or review,

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or

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Fields

Field Name

Description

Protocol

Select the appropriate Protocol from the drop-down list.

Host Name

The web address of the HTTP server.

Port

The Port to use for connection. The HTTP default Port is 80, and the HTTPS default is 443.

Protocol Default

If this box is ticked, then the default Port that is linked to the Protocol field will be used. If the box is unticked then the Port can be changed as required. For instance, if Protocol is set to HTTPS, and this box is ticked, Port will automatically be set to 443.

Use Tags for the Port

If this box is ticked, the Port and Protocol Default fields will be replaced by a custom tag-aware field where you enter a custom reference for the Port which may include a tag.

Path

The HTTP server Path to be accessed.

Connect Timeout

The time to wait for the server connection to be established before terminating or reporting an error.

Read Timeout

The time to wait for the server to complete the read before terminating or reporting an error.

It is possible to substitute values in the HTTP Connection with Local Variables, Global Variables, and Parameters.

An example where you might use this would be where you authenticate with one server that then returns the authentication token and the details of a different server to send your job to. If the Host Name on this General Tab is defined as a variable, you can set this Host Name value at run-time, after receiving your allocated server.

The example below replaces the Host Name with a Super Global variable, using a Tag reference.

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For more information, please refer to Super Globals.