HTTP(S) Protocol
HTTP(S) transports Transport Package content to a Presentation Server using HTTP. This transfer is encoded using a multipart MIME upload request. To encrypt content, you can transport using HTTPS.
The Publication Target configuration contains the following fields, required to publish to HTTPS (the Login and Password fields are only used if the upload URL is protected):
- Login
- User name used to connect to HTTP(S) server
- Password
- Password used to connect to HTTP(S) server
- Fully specified URL to upload page
- The Web address of the HTTP(S) server and file upload location
- (optional) Address of proxy server to be used
- The host name or IP address of the machine running the proxy server (only fill this in if you use an application-specific proxy)
- (optional) Port of proxy server to be used
- The port on which the proxy server is running (only fill this in if you use an application-specific proxy)
HTTP(S) transports Transport Package content to a Presentation Server using an HTTP POST request. HTTPS transport can be encrypted. Although the transport method is called HTTPS, the use of SSL and of username/password is optional. This document does not describe how to configure the Web server to use SSL certificates.
The URL of the HTTPS transport method depends on the Presentation Server configuration. For example, you can use one Sender for both HTTP and HTTPS transport. To specify one or the other, simply change the URL field of the Publication Target. That is, when you create the Publication Target, specify the URL as:
http://if you intend to use HTTPhttps://if you intend to use HTTPS
The remainder of the URL must be the address of a correctly configured Web server that can receiving incoming requests.