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  • July 4, 2017
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Hi,

I am trying to make a remote call with HttpClientRequest to reach a Web Service. I can see that the http request is made (both POST or GET seems to work ok ), but I am finding some troubles to:

- Get the content of the response itself that is returned from the server. I can not even find the response headers.

- Also, I don't know how to deal with http Basic authentication. Should I set some particular headers?

Do you know of any reference or some help that I can use to !work out both topics below?

Thanks very much in advance

Guillermo

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    Best answer by david--garcia

    Try the following

    var http = new HttpClientRequest("yourhost.com")
    http.execute()
    var response = http.response
    for(var i in response.header)
      logInfo("header[" + i + "] => " + response.header[i])

    Should give you something like

    9 replies

    david--garcia
    david--garcia
    New Participant
    May 22, 2019

    Marcel, you must white list outbound url that you will be making the request to.

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    URL permissions

    We have limited the default list of URLs that can be called by JavaScript codes (workflows, etc.). To allow a new URL, the administrator needs to reference it in the serverConf.xml file.

    <urlPermission action="blocking" debugTrace="true"> <url dnsSuffix="abc.company1.com" urlRegEx="https://.*" /> <url dnsSuffix="def.partnerA_company1.com" urlRegEx="https://.*" /> <url dnsSuffix="xyz.partnerB_company1.com" urlRegEx="https://.*" /> </urlPermission>

    Refer to the Security configuration checklist for more information.

    guillermoL
    guillermoLAuthor
    New Participant
    May 22, 2019

    Hi Marcel,

    I don't think you need to add any authorization as far as I remember but I'm not 100% sure to be honest.

    Regards

    Guillermo

    Marcel_Szimonisz
    Marcel_Szimonisz
    New Participant
    May 22, 2019

    Hello fellow campaigners,

    can we send http request without authorizing the domains in the config?

    I need to ping urls from JS activity

    guillermoL
    guillermoLAuthor
    New Participant
    July 5, 2017

    Thanks Amit, works like a charm.

    Regards

    Guillermo

    Amit_Kumar
    Amit_Kumar
    New Participant
    July 5, 2017

    You should use the following:

    var API = 'http://yourwebserviceendpoint.com'

    var http = new  HttpClientRequest(API);

    http.method = "GET";

    http.header["Content-Type"] = "application/json";

    http.header["Accept"] = "application/json";

    http.header["Authorization"] = "Basic Z3XNlbmRleHRlc3QxQGdtYWlsLmNvbTpsb2dpbjEyMzQ="; // replace with your authorization code

    http.execute();

    var response = http.response;

    Regards,

    Amit

      ravitejagundu
      ravitejagundu
      New Participant
      March 4, 2022

      Hi Amit,

       

      I am trying to get the access token using the POST method using in the javascript activity with the reference of the above code. I am passing the Client_id, Client_secret, Grant_Type, and Scope in the header only like above. However getting an error like "invalid_client", "unsupported_grant_acess".

       

      Can you please help me with the code for POST method to get the access token with client_id, client_secret, Grant_Type, and Scope to be passed in the body? 

       

      Thanks,

      Raviteja Gundu.

      ravitejagundu
      ravitejagundu
      New Participant
      September 5, 2022

      Hi Team,

       

      The issue is resolved now. We need to send the grant type, client_id, client_secret in body as a query string. We were able to get the access token now.

      http.body="grant_type=<value>&client_id=<value>&client_secret=<value>&scope=<value>";

       

      Hope it will help someone.

       

      Thanks,

      Raviteja Gundu.

      guillermoL
      guillermoLAuthor
      New Participant
      July 5, 2017

      Thanks David. I was trying to see the contents of the object returned with

      JSON.stringify(response)

      and did not get any output. Now with your help I am receiving what I was expecting.

      Is anyone able to help with the http Basic authentication headers?

      david--garcia
      david--garciaAccepted solution
      New Participant
      July 5, 2017

      Try the following

      var http = new HttpClientRequest("yourhost.com")
      http.execute()
      var response = http.response
      for(var i in response.header)
        logInfo("header[" + i + "] => " + response.header[i])

      Should give you something like

        guillermoL
        guillermoLAuthor
        New Participant
        July 4, 2017

        Thanks David,

        Actually this is what I was doing to make the request I meant before, but in the response I can not find anything related to the reply from the server.

        david--garcia
        david--garcia
        New Participant
        July 4, 2017

        Play around with this in a workflow, you'll get the idea.

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