URL provider settings

Use this page to configure URL providers, which support WebSphere Application Server connections to a URL over a specific protocol.

To view this administrative console page, click Resources > URL Providers > URL_provider.

Configuration tab

Scope

The scope of this URL provider, which can support multiple URL configurations. All of the URL configurations that are supported by this provider inherit this scope.

Name

The administrative name for the URL provider.

Description

Describes the URL provider, for your administrative records.

Class path

Specifies paths or JAR file names which together form the location for the resource provider classes.

Stream handler class name

Specifies fully qualified name of a user-defined Java class that extends the java.net.URLStreamHandler class for a particular URL protocol, such as FTP.

Protocol

The protocol supported by this stream handler. For example, NNTP, SMTP, FTP.