webMethods and Intelligent Business Operations 10.2 | API Gateway User's Guide | Aliases | Creating an Endpoint Alias
 
Creating an Endpoint Alias
You must have the API Gateway's manage aliases functional privilege assigned to perform this task.
An endpoint alias stores the endpoint value along with additional properties such as connection timeout, read timeout, whether to pass security headers or not, keystore alias, key alias, and so on.
* To create an endpoint alias
1. Select Username > Aliases.
2. Select Create alias.
3. In the Basic information section, provide the following information:
Field
Description
Name
Name of the alias.
Type
Select Endpoint alias.
Description
Description of the alias.
4. Click Technical information and provide the following information:
Field
Description
Optimization technique
This is applicable only for a SOAP API.
Specify the optimization technique for the SOAP request received. Select any one of the following:
*None. This is the default value. API Gateway does not use any optimization method to parse the SOAP requests to the API.
*MTOM. Indicates that API Gateway expects to receive a request with a Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM) attachment and forwards the attachment to the native service.
*SWA. Indicates that API Gateway expects to receive a SOAP with Attachment (SWA) request and forwards the attachment to the native service.
Pass WS-Security Headers
Passes the security header.
Endpoint URI
Specify the default URI or components of the URI such as service name.
Connection timeout
Specify the time interval (in seconds) after which a connection attempt times out.
The default value is 30 seconds.
Read timeout
Specify the time interval (in seconds) after which a socket read attempt times out.
Keystore alias
Specify the keystore alias of the truststore that contains all the trusted public certificates.
Key alias
Specifies the key alias that is used by the SSL connection.
5. Click Save.
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