Topic: rest

Dariusz Suchojad

August 23, 2022

How to invoke REST APIs from Zato services

This Zato article is a companion to an earlier post - previously, we covered accepting REST API calls and now we will look at how Zato services can invoke external REST endpoints.

Topics:REST

Dariusz Suchojad

August 15, 2022

SSH commands as API microservices

This is a quick guide on how to turn SSH commands into a REST API service. The use-case may be remote administration of devices or equipment that does not offer a REST interface or making sure that access to SSH commands is restricted to selected external REST-based API clients only.

Topics:SSH, API, REST

Dariusz Suchojad

July 1, 2022

Integrating with WordPress and Elementor API webhooks

This article deals with WordPress, Elementor and webhooks APIs - how to accept data sent from WordPress forms and how to transform such requests into JSON messages to external API endpoints.

Topics:WordPress, Elementor, webhooks, REST, API

Dariusz Suchojad

May 10, 2021

Resilient REST APIs with SSL/TLS client certificates

This Zato how-to is about ensuring that only API clients with valid SSL/TLS certificates, including expected certificate fingerprints or other metadata, can invoke selected REST endpoints. In this way, we are making access to the endpoints secure and, at the same time, we can guard against a class of faults related to the Certificate Authority infrastructure.

Topics:REST, Security, SSL-TLS

Dariusz Suchojad

May 3, 2021

Converting SOAP and WSDL into REST APIs

Even if most of new APIs today are built around REST, there are still already existing, production applications and systems that expose their APIs using SOAP and WSDL only - in today’s article we are integrating with a SOAP service in order to expose it as a REST interface to external applications.

Topics:SOAP, WSDL, REST

Dariusz Suchojad

January 15, 2021

New REST programming examples

As we are preparing to release Zato 3.2 soon, all the programming examples are being rewritten to showcase what the platform is capable of. That includes REST examples too and this article presents a few samples taken from the documentation.

Topics:REST

Dariusz Suchojad

January 4, 2021

Diving deep into REST API channels

We begin in 2021 with a deep dive into Zato REST API channels. What are they? How to use them efficiently? How can they configured for maximum flexibility? Read on to learn all the details.

Topics:REST

Dariusz Suchojad

December 14, 2020

Configuring REST channels for CORS

With the rise of Single-Page Applications (SPA) in web frontends, it is often the case that backend REST APIs based on Zato need to be configured for CORS. This article will explore what CORS is and how to make Zato participate in scenarios using it.

Topics:REST, CORS

Dariusz Suchojad

March 18, 2019

HTTP Method and Accept headers

Zato 3.1 includes new means to manage access to REST services based on input Method and Accept headers in HTTP requests - here is how they can be employed in practice.

Topics:REST

Dariusz Suchojad

May 27, 2014

Store HTTP data in a secure and searchable audit log

New on GitHub, Zato HTTP audit log allows you to store requests and responses, along with their headers in a database that can be queried at any time.

Topics:REST