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UrlDownload

execute and receive data by HTTP-Requests , execute and upload data by HTTP-Requests

This step accesses an URL and downloads the content. The result is String value.

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Inputs

Name Type Description Required Values
account ACCOUNT Select a HTTP account for client certificate based authentication No
host STRING This is the URL to be downloaded. (e.g. http://api.somewebservice.com/GetStock, http://www.mywebsite.com/products.csv or ftp://username:password@ftp.myserver.com/folder/file.csv). Supported Protocols are http://, https://, ftp://. If the protocol is ommitted it will be replaced by http:// by default. Yes
method STRING The HTTP Method (GET, POST, HEAD, PUT, PATCH, DELETE). Yes
  • GET (Default)
  • POST
  • HEAD
  • PUT
  • PATCH
  • DELETE
username STRING If the URL is protected with HTTP BASIC AUTH, this is the username. No
password STRING The HTTP BASIC AUTH password. No
errorStatusCodes STRING A comma separated list of http status codes for which flow stops excecution, e.g. 403,404,500. Leave empty for all status codes greater than 300. No
filename STRING Can be used to construct the filenames of the reponse files. Always enter a filename and extension (e.g. myfile.txt). If empty a default filename will be constructed. No Default: ${autoFilename}
requestBody STRING Optional: Directly sent the HTTP request body. This can be useful when talking to REST-APIs or XML-webservices where you can insert the full Request in this textfield. Only possible with POST, PUT, PATCH HTTP method. When bodyContentType=multipart/form-data (or you use fileToUpload) then you can send form parameters like &param1=value1&param2=value2 (if your URL/host does not have any parameters then your first parameter must not have the & character. It is also possible to add each parameter on a new line. Make sure each parameter/value is on a single line. If necessary use the function ${urlEncode("one & one is two")} to send values url-encoded. For multi-line values consider the Freemarker <#compress> function to remove linebreaks. No
fileToUpload FILE Optional: Directly sent this file in request body. This is similar to a Upload-form on a website. No
fileParameterName STRING Optional: The name of the HTTP-request-parameter under which the file is uploaded. (Default if empty: 'upfile') No
bodyContentType STRING Optional: The content type of the requestBody. No
  • application/octet-stream
  • application/xhtml+xml; charset=ISO-8859-1
  • application/json; charset=UTF-8
  • application/xml; charset=ISO-8859-1
  • text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
  • text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
  • text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-1
  • application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=ISO-8859-1
  • multipart/form-data; charset=ISO-8859-1
  • text/csv; charset=UTF-8
requestHeaders STRING Optional: Additional HTTP request headers added to the HTTP-Request as key=value pairs (one pair per line). No
timeoutInSeconds STRING Optional: HTTP Connection and read-(socket) timeout in seconds. Default: 60s. If the target host takes longer to respond than the timeoutInSeconds, then the step will fail with an error. No Default: 60
sslCertificates STRING Expert Setting for https-urls: Under normal circumstances, URLs which have only a self-signed SSL certificate will result in an error. You can prevent the error by setting this to 'Trust self-signed SSL Certificates'. But this can be a security risk, because malicious sites can abuse this to steal sensitive information. Only use this, if you know what you are doing!!! No
  • Do not trust self-signed SSL Certificates (default) (Default)
  • Trust self-signed SSL Certificates (Security Warning)
responseEncoding STRING Only use this option if outputtype is set to string and reponse header does not contain a valid charset. No
  • [AUTO-DETECT] (Default)
  • UTF-8
  • UTF-16
  • ISO-8859-1
  • ISO-8859-2
  • ISO-8859-4
  • ISO-8859-5
  • ISO-8859-15
  • cp1252 (Windows-1252, ANSI)
  • MacCentralEurope
  • US-ASCII
  • KOI8-R
outputtype STRING The type of the output of the step. (Note: String is deprecated and should only be used for debugging during development. It may be removed in the future without further warning.) No
  • file (Default)
  • string

Outputs

Name Type Description
file FILE The downloaded file (only if outputtype 'file' is selected).
urlcontent STRING The downloaded content as STRING (only if outputtype 'string' is selected). Note: This output is DEPRECATED and should only be used for debugging during development. It may be removed in the future without further warning.
statusCode STRING The HTTP Status code of the response.
statusText STRING The HTTP Status text of the response.
responseTimeInMillis NUMBER The response time.
responseSize NUMBER The size of the response in bytes.
responseHeaders STRING The HTTP-Response headers.
requestBody STRING The HTTP-requestbody which was sent.

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