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If your service endpoint uses an SSL WSDL location (i.e., "https://xxx?wsdl"), you can configure the http conduit to pick up the SSL configuration by using a hardcoded http conduit name of "{http://cxf.apache.org/}TransportURIResolver.http-conduit". The specific HTTP conduit name or a reg-ex expression can still be used.

Keystores (as identified by the sec:keyStore element above) can be identified via any one of three ways: via a file, resource, or url attribute. File locations are either an absolute path or relative to the working directory, the resource attribute is relative to the classpath, and URLs must be a valid URL such as "http://..." "file:///...", etc. Only one attribute of "url", "file", or "resource" is allowed.

Advanced Configuration

HTTP client endpoints can specify a number of HTTP connection attributes including whether the endpoint automatically accepts redirect responses, whether the endpoint can use chunking, whether the endpoint will request a keep-alive, and how the endpoint interacts with proxies.

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