Accessing a BSP Application
Procedure
As explained previously, you access BSP applications using the HTTP or HTTPS (Secure HTTP) protocol. The BSP runtime environment uses the HTTP framework of the SAP Web Application Server (compare Server Architecture). In the Internet Communication Framework (ICF), for a BSP application to function smoothly you need a node, that is, a service in the service tree (see also Creating a BSP Application
).
A BSP application is addressed and executed through HTTP using a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The URL of a BSP application has the following structure (default configuration):
<Prot>://<Host>.<domain>.<extension>:<Port>/sap/bc/bsp/<namespace>/<application name>
Protocol Prot is http or http (if configured). Host is the name of the application server that should execute the application. The domain with the extension encompasses several hosts under a common name. These can either be part of an individual host or a network. The Port number can be omitted if the default port 80 (http) or 443 (https) is used.
For SAP Web Application Server, the default port number is 1080 (HTTP) or 1443 (HTTPS). The namespace is the namespace ID of the BSP application. SAP applications are delivered in the sap namespace. If you create your BSP application in a separate namespace, it must be used in the URL. The application name is the name of the BSP application as defined in the development environment.
When this URL is started in the Web browser, the BSP application is started, and the initial page is displayed (by default this is default.htm).
To determine the URL of a BSP or BSP application in the SAP development environment, select the Properties tab to the right of the SAP GUI screen.