How to route or proxy a link from a WAS Liberty Core running MFP 7.0

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I have a MFP 7.0 running with WAS Liberty Core. My hybird mobile app is accessing this context root, https://hostname:10080/AppName. I want to route or proxy an internal API which returns an image. The path is protected by Basic Authentication so I can only access it in the same port, 10080.

Ex. https://hostname:10080/AppName/ImageAPI/image/name_of_employee

Image API >> http://hostname:10002/InternalAPI/image/ I want to route it here when accessing the link above.

How do I configure this on WAS's server.xml?

Edit: Added a sample link to the image API service.

@NazmulHasan: Why would it be in the worklight project instead of the WAS? — Norbs Knight, Jan 27 '16 at 09:08

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 27 '16 at 19:01

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There is no configuration-only mechanism in Liberty to act as a reverse proxy to another origin server.

You'd need to create a resource via a servlet or webservices endpoint that makes an outbound HTTP request in some way or another and uses the response to fulfill the frontend request.

This could range from finding some open-source reverse proxy servlet or writing your own with a webservices client, apache httpclient, or even HTTPUrlConnection for a quick and dirty proof of concept.

answered Jan 27 '16 at 19:01

covener

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I should mention this is an MFP-agnostic answer. – covener Jan 27 '16 at 19:11
You are likely right. I'm trying out IBM HTTP server to create a reverse proxy with my WAS. Thanks! – Norbs Knight Jan 29 '16 at 14:29

How to route or proxy a link from a WAS Liberty Core running MFP 7.0

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