Connection to HTTP REST Source or/and TCP source

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I have an On-prem system I want to connect to, but this system is serving data only over HTTP.

I did setup an agent, activated Proxy runtime, and now I want to hit an HTTP endpoint and a TCP endpoint, which are not running over SSL.

How can I do this ?
The “REST Source” only allows me to specify an HTTPS endpoint.

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We (unfortunately, legacy …) have the same requirement. Would be great if this could be supported.

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Unfortunately, there is currently no native support for HTTP over the Agent Proxy runtime. However, there is a non-ergonomic way to do plain HTTP in external transforms by using the “create_socket” method.

You need to use the external_systems decorator and then you can call source.create_socket(<target host>, <target port>) which will create a raw TCP socket to the destination server. This socket can then be used to manually send and receive the raw HTTP bytes.

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