Setting Up HTTP/S for a Trading Partner

To make a transport available for a trading partner, perform the following tasks:

  1. Configuring HTTP/S for a Trading Partner.
  2. Select this transport for the partner in the Primary Transport field on the Business Agreements > Edit Configurations > Bind Protocol > protocol configuration > Transports.

Configuring HTTP/S for a Trading Partner

To configure HTTP/S for a trading partner, perform the following steps:
Note: The following steps are only for Transports tab in EZComm protocol.

Procedure

  1. On Partner Management tile, click Partners> partner’s name
  2. In the Edit Partner window, select EZComm protocol and click Edit Configurations.
  3. On the protocol configurations page, enter the following fields for General tab:
    Configuring HTTP/S for a Trading Partner: General Tab
    Field Description
    AS2 Identifier Add a new AS2 Identifier or select from the list
    Valid Email Address List This email address list can be a list of email addresses for this participant, separated by semicolon or by a comma. For an outbound document sent to the trading partner through SMTP transport, the first email address is used in the From header. For incoming email from the mail server, the To email address from the email is matched to one of the email addresses in this list. This only applies when using AS1, AS2, or Email transport.
    Allow override of fileName via HTTP parameter

    This option only applies to the HTTP and HTTPS transports for the TIBCO BusinessConnect Container Edition -Services Plug-in. This option does not apply to the AS2 and AS1 Email transports.

    For more information, see TIBCO BusinessConnect Container Edition -Services Plug-in, User’s Guide

  4. To add the transport for the partner, click partner name > protocol link > Transport > Add Outbound Transport or transport link respectively and configure the options listed in the following table:
    Note: The fields described in the following table are applicable for all the protocols.
    Configuring HTTP/S for a Trading Partner: Transports Tab
    Field Description
    Transport Name An identifier for these transport settings.
    Transport Type Select the transport type from the drop-down list: HTTP or HTTPs
    URL The URL of the trading partner
    HTTP 1.0 Compatible Whether to exclude "Expect: 100 continue" in the HTTP header of the outboundHTTP/S request when the request is sent to the server of the trading partner
    Server Certificate (HTTPS only) The participant’s certificate used to encrypt communication.Note: You must configure the credentials in advance, before creating this transport. Formore details about server certificates, see
    Use HTTP Basic Authentication Enable basic authentication at the trading partner. The user name and password supplied in those fields are provided when accessing the trading partner. The trading partner will service requests only if it can validate the supplied user name and password. Note that the password is passed in plain text across the network.
    Username Specify a user name for authenticating the host on the partner HTTP/S service.
    Password Specify a password for authenticating the host on the partner HTTP/S service.
    Retry Count The maximum number of times BusinessConnect will try to re-connect to the remote HTTP server, in case of failures.
    Retry Interval The interval TIBCO BusinessConnect Container Edition will wait before another re-connect is attempted.
    Socket Timeout (seconds) The amount of time a socket will block on a read operation.
    Note: If you want to receive the timeout error when no response received from your partner, the value in this field must be less than the value set in the Response Wait Time field in the Configuration tab of the SendRequest activity.
    Cipher Suite Grade

    (HTTPS only)

    		Select the cipher grade (strength) from the list.
    The following options are available:
    • All
    • Only Stronger Than Export
    • Only 128-Bit and Stronger
    • Only stronger Than 128-Bit
    • Only 256-Bit and Stronger

    All ciphers are listed in TIBCO BusinessConnect Container Edition Security Guidelines, Cipher Suites.

    Can Use TLS

    (HTTPS only)

    		TLS protocol is supported.

    If you select this check box, TLS protocol is used to establish connection to the trading partner server.

    TLS Version

    (HTTPS only)

    		Select the version of TLS protocol.
    TLS protocol versions 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 are supported.
    Note: If you select TLS version 1.1 or 1.2, you have to select SUN or IBM as the security vendor for inbound and outbound socket operations.
    Can Use SSLv3

    (HTTPS only)

    		SSL protocol version 3.0 is supported.

    If you select this check box, SSL protocol version 3.0 is used to establish connection to the trading partner server.

  5. Click Add > Save.

Configuring Gateway Services for HTTP

To configure the Gateway services for HTTP perform the following tasks:

Procedure

  1. On the System Settings tile, click Inbound Protocols
  2. On Inbound page, select HTTP protocol and click Configure Service.
  3. On the Gateway Service Configurations page, click http or add icon to create new gateway service.
  4. In the Edit Gateway Service dialog box, enter the information in the fields displayed. For more information about the fields, see TIBCO BusinessConnect Container Edition Administartion guide, Configuring Gateway Services.