REST request properties define how ReadyAPI handles specific REST requests.
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| Option | Description |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Follow 302 Redirect with GET |
If true, ReadyAPI uses the GET method for subsequent requests if the response has the 302 Found HTTP code.
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| 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.
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| Remove Empty Content |
If true, ReadyAPI removes empty elements from requests. Works for request contents in the XML format.
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| Entitize Properties |
If true, ReadyAPI encodes special characters. For example, HTML symbols like & or > are entitized into & or >.
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| 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-value parameters. |
| Pretty Print |
If true, ReadyAPI uses line feeds and indentation to display XML data of responses.
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| 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.
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