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Reference: Send HTTP Request
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## Purpose
Use this component to make HTTP Requests to any external URL that you can properly authenticate with.
Orchestrate supports TLS v1.3 and can fall back to v1.2 if the endppoint doesn't support 1.3.
Note: Don't use the Send HTTP Request component to access Workday APIs. Instead, use the Send Workday API Request component.
## Template Availability
This component is available in these orchestration templates:
- Synchronous
- Asynchronous
- Business Process
- Home Card
- Integration System
- Custom Agent Action
## Properties
Provide a meaningful Reference Name for the step as it will appear in your orchestration.
Select a method and add a URL as a string in the Expression Builder. The component supports these methods:
- DELETE
- GET
- OPTIONS
- PATCH
- POST
- PUT
- HEAD
The Auth Tab
Use this tab to specify the type of authentication your request uses. You can create authentication types on the Credentials tab in your orchestration's Settings. Types you create there are available from the drop-down menu here.
The Body Tab
Use this tab to specify the data sent along with each request. There are 3 ways to specify data:
- Reference Existing Data: In the Select Data field, use Expression Builder to specify the data. Use the Content Type drop-down menu to specify the data's type.
- Create Text Template: Use the Content Type drop-down menu to specify the data's type. Compose the Message.
- Form Multipart Body: In a multipart body, add as many parts as are required and configure each individually. Parts are indexed, beginning at zero. Use Expression Builder to name each one. For each part:
- In the Select Data field, use Expression Builder to specify the part's data.
- Select the Content Type:
- application/json
- application/octet-stream
- application/x-ww-form-urlencoded
- application/xml
- text/csv
- text/html
- text/plain
- text/xml
- Use Expression Builder to optionally add Content Disposition Parameters and Headers. A Content Disposition Parameter provides information about the field to which the part applies. The part is defined by the boundary set in the `Content-Type` header.
The Headers Tab
Use this tab to add HTTP headers, providing a name and value for each.
The Query Parameters Tab
Use this tab to add URL query parameters in the form of key/value pairs.
Parameters are appended to the end of the URL request following `?` and separated by `&`.
The Settings Tab
Use this tab to configure these request and response details:
- Overall Timeout: The total time allowed for the operation.
- Connect Timeout: The time allowed for a client-server connection to establish.
- Response Timeout: The time allowed for establishing a connection.
- Response Type: The type of response requested.
- Retry Settings: Select a predefined Retry policy. You can create Retry policies on the HTTP Retries tab of your orchestration's Settings.
Select the Advanced Mode check box to reveal these additional settings:
- Polling Settings: Select a HTTP polling configuration that you created in the Orchestration's settings.
- Transfer-Encoding Settings: Select the Chunk encoding check box to send the HTTP request in multiple segments rather than as a single entity. Ensure that your target API supports this configuration before enabling the setting. Although some APIs actively require chunked transfer encoding, not all APIs support it.
### Related Information
[Define HTTP Polling Configurations](/wcp_docs/GUID-f6359618-dbbf-4116-b354-b4a6653f9ee2.html)
[Define HTTP Retry Policies](/wcp_docs/GUID-d04cc763-a044-423f-b39e-1348dfd76a87.html)