REST Request Properties

Name

The name of the request.

Description

An arbitrary text describing the request.

Encoding

The type of request data encoding – for example, UTF-8 or iso-8859-1. Encoding type is added as charset header.

Endpoint

The Resource part of the target URL (including the port number).

Timeout

The number of milliseconds to wait for the server response. If no data arrives within the specified time period, the request is considered to fail. If the value is 0 or is not specified, the wait time is infinite.

Bind Address

The network interface (an IP address), through which ReadyAPI will send the request.

Follow Redirects

If true, the request will follow the redirect and return the server message. Otherwise, a redirect message will be returned.

Follow 302 Redirect with GET

If true, ReadyAPI uses the GET method for subsequent requests if the response has the 302 Found HTTP code.

Username

The basic authorization username.

Password

The basic authorization password.

Domain

Optional. The basic authorization domain.

Authentication Type

The Authorization type used for the request.

SSL Keystore

Specifies the file storing private keys that are used to authorize ReadyAPI to the server. Only works for HTTPS requests.

Strip Whitespaces

If true, ReadyAPI removes comments and extra whitespaces from elements and attributes. Works for request contents in the XML format.

Remove Empty Content

If true, ReadyAPI removes empty elements from requests. Works for request contents in the XML format.

Entitize Properties

If true, ReadyAPI encodes special characters. For example, HTML symbols like & or > are entitized into & or >.

Multi-Value Delimiter

The delimiter used for separating multiple values of the same parameter in the editor. To learn how to use it, see Send multi-vale parameters.

Pretty Print

If true, ReadyAPI uses line feeds and indentation to display XML data of responses.

Dump File

The path to the file where responses will be saved. If empty, responses are discarded.

Max Size

The maximum size of responses to be saved. 0 means the entire responses will be saved.