Access External Service

SAP Mobile Server can also be used for accessing OData services provided by any external OData provider. The proxy URL supports read (HTTP GET), create (HTTP POST), update (HTTP PUT or HTTP MERGE), and delete (HTTP DELETE).

Syntax

Perform an HTTP request at the following URL:

http://host:port/[public/]/{proxyName}

Parameters

proxyName – URL represents one of the configured proxy connection endpoints (data services exposed through SAP Mobile Platform) whitelisted.

Returns

If successful, returns a 200 OK status code and a response body.

Examples

Access external service – HTTP request header:

GET /com.sap.myapp HTTP/1.1
Cookie: X-SUP-APPCID=b6d50e93-bcaa-439d-9741-660a3cb56771; X-SUP-SESSID=97ts80gwhxkc 
Host: supserver:8000
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.1.3 (java 1.5)
Authorization: Basic REVWMDAwMTppbml0aWFs

HTTP response header:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/atomsvc+xml
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
Set-Cookie: X-SUP-APPCID=b6d50e93-bcaa-439d-9741-660a3cb56771
server: SAP NetWeaver Application Server / ABAP 731
dataserviceversion: 2.0
set-cookie: SAP_SESSIONID_DG1_001=<Some-Token>; path=/
set-cookie: MYSAPSSO2=<SSO-Token>; path=/; domain=.sap.com
Content-Length: 2651