Download a file

Downloads a file from a remote application and sends it to a back-end application using HTTP or HTTPS as the transport protocol.

With the GET HTTP Body/{FileName} method, a trading partner can pull a file (using any REST client or application supporting REST) from AS4 Microservice.

Table 1. Download file request details
Method	Resource	URI	Description
`GET`	`HTTP Body`	[http/https]://[ip address of the machine]:[port]/[Receiver URI]/[Virtual Path]/[File Name]	Downloads a file from the virtual path mentioned in the exchange profile.

Download a file example

The following example shows a successful request and response. In this example, the filename to be downloaded is ExampleFileName.txt.

HTTP file download request

GET http://9.109.114.193:31231/httpreceiver/path1/ExampleFileName.txt

HTTP file download response

HTTP response with file content as HTTP body.