Thanks Matt

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Matt Burgess <mattyb...@apache.org> wrote:

> Mohammed,
>
> HandleHttpRequest [1] allows you to specify the listening port as well
> as Allowed Paths. Using the hostname/IP of the NiFi instance, along
> with the Listening Port and Allowed Paths, creates an endpoint to
> which you can issue HTTP commands (GET, PUT, POST -- all can be
> allowed or denied via the processor properties). I think under the
> hood the processor spawns Jetty with the configured properties to
> accept the request(s).
>
> So for a hostname of "nifi.mydomain.com", with a listening port of
> 8989 and an Allowed Path of /sendParameters, you could POST to
> http://nifi.mydomain.com:8989/sendParameters and the (running)
> HandleHttpRequest processor would accept it. Check the documentation
> and example Hello_NiFi_Web_Service [2] for usage patterns, such as
> using a downstream HandleHttpResponse processor in order to return a
> response from the request.
>
> Regards,
> Matt
>
> [1] https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/components/org.
> apache.nifi.processors.standard.HandleHttpRequest/index.html
> [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/
> Example+Dataflow+Templates
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 11:55 AM, mohammed shambakey
> <shambak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm sorry if the question is silly, but it is giving me a hard time. We
> have
> > a web page that contain some inputs (e.g., userid and other parameters)
> and
> > I want to sent these parameters to a remote nifi-instance.
> >
> > I think I should use "handlHTTPRequst" processor at the remote instance,
> but
> > I'm not sure how the web page can specify the address of the
> > "handlHTTPRequest" processor at the remote NIFI site (e.g., we have the
> IP
> > address of the remote NIFI instance, but how to specify the address of
> the
> > "handleHTTPPequst" processor)?
> >
> > I've seen some examples on NIFI docs about "hendleHTTPRequest" but they
> > don't have the web page to NIFI instance. I wonder if there are other
> > examples for this case?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > --
> > Mohammed
>



-- 
Mohammed

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