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HTTP Request

Activity Description​

Sends an HTTP request (including headers).

Output​

The request's result.

Settings​

  • URL—The website's address (e.g. https://www.example.com). The address must include the protocol prefix (https:// or http://) and any query parameters that you want to include.
  • User Name—The username by which the selected website is accessed (optional, usually not required).
  • Password—The password by which the selected website is accessed (optional, usually not required).
  • Request Type—HTTP method to use (GET/POST/PUT/DELETE/PATCH).
  • Content Type—(Only for POST, PATCH, and PUT) The format of the posted request. Select from the list of frequently used content types or type your own. Example: application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
  • Code Page—For plain-text content types such as text/html and text/plain, this setting specifies the character encoding using code page numbers. Enter any code page number or use the drop-down list to select from a list of frequently used code pages. For example, to set UTF-31, enter 12000. If left empty, 65001 (UTF-8) is used. For the full list of possible code pages, see the Microsoft Documentation.
  • Ignore Code Page—Ignores the value of Code Page and uses the default encoding 65001 (UTF-8).
  • Post Data—The request body (depending on the selected Content Type) in raw format.
  • Headers—The list of headers to post to the web service.
    • Header—The header name.
    • Value—The header value without any surrounding quotes.
  • Proxy—Enter the connection details of a proxy server if you want to use one:
    • Proxy—The address of the proxy server that must be passed to reach the website (e.g., 192.168.10.10).
    • User Name—A username authorized to access the proxy server (e.g., admin).
    • Password—The password of the user authorized to access the proxy server.
    • Security Protocol Type—The type of the security protocol can be SSL3/TLS/TLS11/TLS12 (the default is None).
    • Certificate Validation Callback—Used to pass the certificate request in order to retrieve information (SSL pages).

The following example shows a workflow that uses the HTTP Request activity to authenticate against an external service (unused activity fields are omitted). After posting a client ID and a client secret, it receives a JSON reply with an access token. The example then uses the getcellvalue() function to create a JSON session using the Start Json Session activity. The Json to Table activity then converts the JSON code to a memory able and extracts a property called access_token from the JSON. Finally, the Display Value activity prints a message including the retrieved access token in the workflow log.