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External aliases are used to make it possible to call services using any appropriate non-technical name.

You can create external aliases that link to a service (use button External Aliases). External aliases can have the form /name1/name2/... and can be used to create more meaningful path names to services in the ICF service tree, for example, /SAP/mySAPdotcom/ping as an external alias to the Ping service. Unlike internal aliases, external aliases may contain slashes.

Otherwise, an external alias is handled as an internal alias. Just like an internal alias, it does not differentiate between upper and lowercase.

This means that if the string of the internal alias is found in the URL of the incoming request, the service assigned to this alias, that is, the HTTP request handler defined in this service, is called. The service data of the external alias override those of the target service.

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An incoming URL is first checked against the external aliases, then against the internal aliases.

Procedure documentationTransporting External Aliases

To transport an external alias, position the cursor on it and choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text or choose External Alias ® Transport. The system then displays a dialog box, and you can enter the transport key. If you choose /test*, for example, then all external aliases that begin with /test are transported. In the following section you must specify the transport request that should contain the transport.

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