Gate object

Gate Object

Object representing settings of main, session or management gate

Field	Type	Description	Default value
url	string	Gate URL, REQUIRED for Main gate Unified resource location which will be used to listen incoming requests. Format (one of): http://<host_name>[:port] https://<host_name>[:port] file://<IFS file> i2Rest can listen http://, https:// and file:// urls. With http(s)://, i2Rest server will not distinguish the host name, the value of the port number is only taken into account, i.e. http://api.i2rest.com and http://www.i2rest.com are equal in terms of listener. With such addresses, i2Rest server will start listening on port :80 of current IBM i server. With file://, i2Rest server will listen incoming connections using stream sockets at specified path Unix stream sockets are available only for clients of the same IBM i server with this i2Rest server instance. If gate URL is not specified, this gate of i2Rest server will open unix stream socket based on temporary file at /tmp directory