HTTP Servlet Transport

The transport receiver implementation of the HTTP transport is available in the Carbon core component. The transport sender implementation comes from the Tomcat http connector. This transport is shipped with WSO2 Carbon and all WSO2 Carbon-based products, which use this transport as the default transport, except WSO2 ESB. By default, we use non-blocking Tomcat Java connector org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol.

Note

This is a non-blocking HTTP transport implementation, which means that I/O the threads do not get blocked while received messages are processed.
Although the axis2.xml file contains configurations for HTTP/S transports by default, they are not used by WSO2 products. Instead, the products use the HTTP/S transport configurations in Tomcat-level; therefore, changing the HTTP/S configurations in the axis2.xml file has no effect.

Tip

In the transport parameter tables, the literals displayed in italics under the Possible Values column should be considered as fixed literal constant values. Those values can be directly put into the transport configurations.

Transport Receiver Parameters

Parameter Name	Description	Requried	Possible Values	Default Value
port	The port number on which this transport receiver should listen for incoming messages.	Yes	A positive integer less than 65535
proxyPort	When used, this transport listener will accept messages arriving through a HTTP proxy server which listens on the specified proxy port. Apache mod_proxy should be enabled in the proxy server. All the WSDLs generated will contain the proxy port value as the listener port.	No	A positive integer less than 65535

HTTP servlet transport should be configured in the PRODUCT_HOME/repository/conf/tomcat/catalina-server.xml file. The transport class that should be specified in the catalina-server.xml file is as follows:

<Connector protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"/>

This servlet transport implementation can be further tuned up using the following parameters.

Parameter Name	Description	Requried	Possible Values	Default Value
port	The port over which this transport receiver listens for incoming messages.	Yes	A positive integer less than 65535
proxyPort	When used, this transport listener will accept messages arriving through a HTTP proxy server which listens on the specified proxy port. Apache `mod_proxy` should be enabled on the proxy server. All the WSDLs generated will contain the proxy port value as the listener port.	No	A positive integer less than 65535
maxHttpHeaderSize	The maximum size of the HTTP request and response header in bytes.	No	A positive integer	4096
maxThreads	The maximum number of worker threads created by the receiver to handle incoming requests. This parameter largely determines the number of concurrent connections that can be handled by the transport.	No	A positive integer	40
enableLookups	Use this parameter to enable DNS lookups in order to return the actual host name of the remote client. Disabling DNS lookups at transport level generally improves performance.	No	true, false	true
disableUploadTimeout	This flag allows the servlet container to use a different, longer connection timeout while a servlet is being executed, which in the end allows either the servlet a longer amount of time to complete its execution, or a longer timeout during data upload.	No	true, false	true
clientAuth	Set to true if you want the SSL stack to require a valid certificate chain from the client before accepting a connection. Set to want if you want the SSL stack to request a client Certificate, but not fail if one is not present. A false value (which is the default) will not require a certificate chain unless the client requests a resource protected by a security constraint that uses CLIENT-CERT authentication.	No	true, false, want	false
maxKeepAliveRequests	The maximum number of HTTP requests which can be pipelined until the connection is closed by the server. Setting this attribute to 1 will disable HTTP/1.0 keep-alive, as well as HTTP/1.1 keep-alive and pipelining. Setting this to -1 will allow an unlimited amount of pipelined or keep-alive HTTP requests.	No	-1 or any positive integer	100
acceptCount	The maximum queue length for incoming connection requests when all possible request processing threads are in use. Any requests received when the queue is full will be refused.	No	A positive integer	10
compression	Use this parameter to enable content compression and save server bandwidth.	No	on, off, force	off
noCompressionUserAgents	Indicate a list of regular expressions matching user-agents of HTTP clients for which compression should not be used, because these clients, although they do advertise support for the feature, have a broken implementation.	No	A comma separated list of regular expressions	empty string
compressableMimeType	Use this parameter to indicate a list of MIME types for which HTTP compression may be used.	No	A comma separated list of valid mime types	text/html,text /xml,text/plain

This is only a subset of all the supported parameters. The servlet HTTP transport uses the org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector implementation from Apache Tomcat. So the servlet HTTP transport actually accepts any parameter accepted by the connector implementation. Please refer to Apache Tomcat's connector configuration reference (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/http.html) for more information and a complete list of supported parameters.

Transport Sender Parameters

Parameter Name	Description	Requried	Possible Values	Default Value
PROTOCOL	The version of HTTP protocol to be used for outgoing messages.	No	HTTP/1.0, HTTP/1.1	HTTP/1.1
Transfer-Encoding	Effective only when the HTTP version is 1.1 (i.e. the value of the PROTOCOL parameter should be HTTP/1.1). Use this parameter to enable chunking support for the transport sender.	No	chunked	Not Chunked
SocketTimeout	The socket timeout value in milliseconds, for out bound connections.	No	A positive integer	60000 ms
ConnectionTimeout	The connection timeout value in milliseconds, for out bound connections.	No	A positive integer	60000 ms
OmitSOAP12Action	Set this parameter to "true" if you need to disable the soapaction for SOAP 1.2 messages.	No	true, false	false