Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
| Search for | Operator | Example |
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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- Consume an external Web Service
- Use the WSDL2JS utility
- Best practices for writing a JavaScript to consume a Web Service
- Date/Time handling
- Example: Interface to another system
- Web Services with a proxy server
- Connecting to a secure Web Service
- Use SSL connections to connect to an external Web Service
- Web Services connections through a firewall
Web Services connections through a firewall
If your Service Manager server is behind a firewall, you may need to configure a proxy server redirection to send and receive WSDL and SOAP requests. If your firewall uses the SOCKS protocol, then it can likely handle Web Services redirection requests transparently to the user. If your firewall does not recognize the SOCKS protocol, then you can install a dedicated redirector application for SOCKS traffic such as that generated by Web Services requests.
If you install a redirector application for your Web Services SOAP traffic, then you need to modify the URLs you use to connect to the remote Web Services. To download the remote WSDL, change the URL listed in the WSDL to JS wizard to point to the dedicated socket you have established for the remote Web Service. To send and receive SOAP messages to the Web Service, you can change the location object of your custom JavaScript to the dedicated socket you have established for the remote Web Service.
Example: dedicated socket connection
Define a dedicated socket on port 8888 to the Amazon Search Service using the following proxyconnect command of the connect.c application:
proxyconnect -p 8888 -S 192.168.1.254:1080
http://soap.amazon.com/onca/soap280
To obtain the WSDL for the Amazon Search Service through this example proxy connection, update the WSDL to JS URL to point to:
http://localhost:8888/soap/servlet/rpcrouter
To send to and to receive from the Amazon Search Service SOAP messages , you could update the custom calling script AmazonSearchServiceTestwith the following new line just after the AmazonSearchService.ActorSearchRequest class is initialized.
actorSearchRequest.location =
"http://localhost:8888/soap/servlet/rpcrouter"
