HTTP Post - SAP Documentation

HTTP Post

You can use this action to do the following:

Post a document to a URL and process results
Read information from an RSS feed
Call a Web service where a valid WSDL definition does not exist, such as in some legacy cases.
The ContentType value must match the posted document content.

Features

The properties for this action are listed in the following table:

Property	Data Type	Access	Description
URL	String	In and out	The URL to which the document is sent.
PostData	String	In and out	The document to be posted. You load the document or retrieve it from another location, link it to the property through the Link Editor screen, and then post it.
Encoding	String	In and out	The default value is UTF-8.
UserName	String	In and out	If credentials are required to access the URL, this value is used.
UserPassword	String	In and out	The password for the user name.
ContentType	String	In and out	Dependent on the document and what the receiving URL expects. The default is application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
ReturnAsString	String	In and out	Results of the post are stored as a string in this property. The return on any error is written to it.
ReturnAsXML	XML	In and out	If you expect XML returned from the post, use this property to access the document.
CredentialAlias	String	In	The selected credential alias will use the defined alias from the server to authenticate to the target URL.
UseDestinationService	Boolean	In	Forces post calls to use the destination service. The Http destination with the name XMIISSO configured in Netweaver Java server is used to make the connection. This configures the action for basic authentication and HTTPS. However, the destination service may have problems connecting to servers through proxy. For more details, see Maintaining HTTP Destinations in the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com Technology Platform SAP NetWeaver SAP NetWeaver 7.3 Including Enhancement Package 1 Application Help .
KeystoreName	String	In	Used for X.509 authentication. The property must match the keystore name as configured on the target server.
CertificateName	String	In	Used for X.509 authentication. The property must match the certificate name as configured on the target server.
Success	Boolean	Out	Indicates whether the action succeeded or failed. If it failed, errors are displayed in the server trace log.
PostingtoPI	Boolean	In	Indicates that the destination is a PI server and checks if you are posting data to a PI server. If true, you can send empty URL parameters.