What node can I use to post to a URL?

lrjurgen

We have a "texting" service in house that I need to call from an IPA.

I'm thinking I can create a sub workflow to call, but what node can I use to simply post to a URL?

Basically I need to hit the following url as many times as I have phone numbers, 1 at a time:

fqdn/.../sendMessage to send to the user

Passing the PHONE and MESSAGE via a variable:

fqdn/.../sendMessage?type=2&to={PHONE}&text={MESSAGE}

IPA: 11.x

Training_OLAP_Dedicated_Cluster_Nodes_NF.mp4

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unknown

Hi Lance,

You can try making use of Web Run Node in your IPA. I have never tried as such before. But you can try exploring more on it.. Hope, it helps.

Regards,
Naresh.

lrjurgen

WebRun seems like the node to use but I'm not finding much documentation on it...

I've tried quite a few things in web program and post string but getting 404 errors...

serafino

Web Run is the node to use. Web Root is the server name and should be in the form http(s)://server.domain.com:port and you need to supply a username and password, if one is needed. The Web Program field is everything that comes after the server name. If you have it set (without quotes) to "data?date=<!today>" and "today" is YYYY-MM-DD, then your Web Run will call:

https://server.domain.com:443/data?date=2021-08-04

The results will be available in <!WebRun1234_result> and can be used by a Data Iterator to parse out data or to check that it worked.

In your example, Web Root is "">https://server.domain.com" and Web Program is ".../sendMessage?type=2&to=<!phone>&text=<!message>" where phone and message are pulled from the rest of the flow.

don-kintzle

You may want to do a Fiddler trace while entering the URL to see what it's doing. Then you could use Message Builder to build the command and pass it via the Web call in the WebRun node.

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