PK73200: INFOCENTER LEADS TO BELIEVE HTTPCLIENT SERVICE IS APPLIED TO ALL OUTGOING CONNECTIONS, BUT THIS IS NOT TRUE

6.1.0.1 Download: WebSphere Portal and Web Content Management V6.1, fix pack 1
6.1.0.2 Download: WebSphere Portal and Web Content Management V6.1, fix pack 2
6.1.0.3 Download: WebSphere Portal and WCM V6.1 fix pack 3, 6.1.5 feature pack
6.1.0.4 Download: WebSphere Portal and WCM V6.1.0 fix pack 4 & 6.1.5 fix pack 1
6.1.0.5 Download: WebSphere Portal and WCM V6.1.0 fix pack 5
6.1.0.6 Download: WebSphere Portal and WCM V6.1.0 fix pack 6

APAR status

• Closed as documentation error.

Error description

• The Infocenter States:
  "Several components of the portal need to open HTTP or HTTPs
  connections to other resources. The HTTP Client Service provides
  a central point for configuration properties to these outbound
  connections. You can set global settings for the SSL
  configuration and proxy server usage."
  
  Link: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wpdoc/v6r1m0/topi
  c/com.ibm.wp.ent.doc/admin/srvcfgref.html#srvcfgref__http_client
  
  However, through investigation, it was determined these classes
  are private and cannot be used without code changes in many of
  the components.
  
  The consolidation of all the components to have a single point
  of configuration is a portal future line item and is not
  committed for any release.
  

Local fix

• The internal proxy configuration methods for each portlet must
  still be used.
  
  
  Fix InfoCenter to clarify the problematic passage.
  
  After:
   "Several components of the portal need to open HTTP or
  HTTPs connections to other resources. The HTTP Client Service
  provides a central point for configuration properties to these
  outbound connections. You can set global settings for the SSL
  configuration and proxy server usage."
  
  Add:
  "These settings do not currently replace all individual portlet
  prxy configuration settings. To set the proxy settings for
  specific portlets, consult the documentation for each portlet
  for how to modify their specific settings."
  

Problem summary

• InfoCenter entry at: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wp
  doc/v6r1m0/topic/com.ibm.wp.ent.doc/admin/srvcfgref.html#srvcfgr
  ef__http_client had incorrect information about the global proxy
  setting applying to all outbound connections.
  

Problem conclusion

• Entry has been amended and confusions clarified about this
  issue.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

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