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HTTP Protocol Parameters

Data Transport Service r2 and r3 support the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) protocol.

You can create, maintain, and perform transfers to receive data from an HTTP server or its proxy server, even if the server does not have a DTS agent. DTS thus supports downloading files from the Internet. Using DTS, you can receive data from HTTP servers or their proxy servers, but you cannot send data to them.

Syntax for performing an HTTP agent-to-agent transfer follows. All operands are required.

dtscli -a|t

protocol=http "ipath=DTA_machine_name::destination_path"
"rpath=http_host_name::http_source_file_path_name"
iuser=username::password
direction=r

-a|t

Indicates the type of transfer, agent-to-agent (-a) or managed (-t).

protocol=http

Specifies HTTP as the protocol for any Internet download.

"ipath=DTA_machine_name::destination_path"

Specifies the name of the DTS agent computer that is receiving the HTTP download, followed by two colons, followed by the path name of the newly downloaded file on this computer.

"rpath=http_host_name::http_source_file_path_name"

Specifies the host name of the HTTP server (or its proxy server) followed by two colons, followed by the path name of the file you want to download from this server.

iuser=username::password

Specifies the user name and password for the initiating computer, that is, the DTS agent computer that is initiating the transfer.

direction=r

Specifies that the initiating computer receives the transfer.