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[guillermoL]

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

[David__Garcia]

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

[guillermoL]

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 · Accepted solution]

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]

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?

[Amit_Kumar]

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]

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]

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]

Thanks Amit, works like a charm.

Regards

Guillermo

[Marcel_Szimonisz]

Hello fellow campaigners,

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

I need to ping urls from JS activity

[guillermoL]

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

[David__Garcia]

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

OCT -31- 2017 Campaign v6/v7 - 17.4 Build 8863

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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.