Building a Client that Posts a Flat File to a Service

Set this variable...	To
url	This is the URL of the service that you want to invoke. webMethods services can be invoked via a URL. The format for specifying the URL is http://hostname:port/invoke/ folder.subfolder/service name, where hostname is the name of the machine running the Integration Server, port is the port on which the Integration Server is running, folder.subfolder is the path to the service folder names, and service name is the name of the service to invoke. The following value would invoke the “ProcessFlatFile” flow service located in the “MyFFProcessing” package on the “rubicon” server with port number “5555.” For example, http://rubicon:5555/invoke/MyFFProcessing/ProcessFlatFile
method	“post”
headers.Content–Type	Name: Content–type Value: The specific content type for the document (application/x-wmflatfile)
data.string –OR– data.bytes	This is the flat file that you want to post.

You also will set any optional HTTP variables, such as authorization information, that are required by your application. The invoked service will have an InputStream ffdata object in the pipeline that contains the flat file data.