Configuring an HTTP Input Source

In this task you choose a request to an HTTP server as the source for your Input Source element.

Follow these steps:

Double-click an Input Source element. The Input Source Properties dialog appears.
(Optional) Edit the Name and Description of the element.
On the Input Source tab, click Choose. The Input Source Chooser wizard appears.
Select the option A request to an HTTP server and click Next.

On the HTTP Operation Input Source page, specify information about the HTTP server you want to contact.

Option	Description
URL	Enter the URL for the HTTP source.
HTTP Method	The method determines how parameters to the HTTP request are sent: Choose GET to encode the parameters as part of the URL. Choose POST to include the parameters in the HTTP headers. For most HTTP requests, you can choose the default GET method.
Username	(Optional) Enter the name to use when logging in to the HTTP server if the server requires it. If the server requires no authentication, leave this blank.
Password	(Optional) Enter the password for the user account specified in the Username field. If the username is blank, this field is ignored.

If your HTTP operation doesn’t require any parameters, click Finish to close the wizard.
If your HTTP operation does require parameters, click Next to proceed. The HTTP Operation Parameters page appears. Each row in the table represents a parameter.
(Optional) Add parameters, Delete parameters, or change the order of the parameters in the displayed table (Move Up, Move Down). Arrange the parameters in the order required for the HTTP request.
Click Finish to close the wizard.

Next

If this Input Source doesn’t supply data in a relational result set format, configure a transform for the data. Otherwise, configure error handling for this Input Source.