Content types for administering the Web Gateway

HTTP requests that you submit to the WebSphere® MQ Managed File Transfer Web Gateway administration API must have a media type of application/xml. Responses from the Web Gateway also have a media type of application/xml.

Request

Content transferred to WebSphere MQ Managed File Transfer using HTTP, as part of a request to the administration API, must be in one of the formats in the following table.

Media-type	Valid WebSphere MQ Managed File Transfer resources	Allowed verbs
application/xml	Filespace	POST (create an instance of a file space) GET (view the current configuration of a file space) DELETE (delete an instance of a file space)

Response body

If an HTTP request is successful, the Web Gateway returns a response with a media type of application/xml. For details of the XML schema for this response, see File space information response format.