HTTP/HTTPS connections on non-standard ports for flexible port egress

HTTP/HTTPS connections on non-standard ports (not 80/443) must be proxied out of AEM as a Cloud Service, however they do not need any special portForwards rules, and can use AEM’s advanced networking’s AEM_PROXY_HOST and a reserved proxy port AEM_HTTP_PROXY_PORT or AEM_HTTPS_PROXY_PORT depending on is the destination is HTTP/HTTPS.

Advanced networking support

The following code example is supported by the following advanced networking options.

Ensure the the appropriate advanced networking configuration has been set up prior to following this tutorial.

CAUTION
This code example is only for Flexible Port Egress. A similar, but different code example is available for HTTP/HTTPS connections on non-standard ports for Dedicated Egress IP address and VPN.

Code example

This Java™ code example is of an OSGi service that can run in AEM as a Cloud Service that makes an HTTP connection to an external web server on 8080. Connections to HTTPS web servers use the environment variables AEM_PROXY_HOST and AEM_HTTPS_PROXY_PORT (default to proxy.tunnel:3128 in AEM releases < 6094).

NOTE
It is recommended the Java™ 11 HTTP APIs are used to make HTTP/HTTPS calls from AEM.
  • core/src/com/adobe/aem/wknd/examples/connections/impl/HttpExternalServiceImpl.java
package com.adobe.aem.wknd.examples.core.connections.impl;

import com.adobe.aem.wknd.examples.core.connections.ExternalService;
import org.osgi.service.component.annotations.Component;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.net.ProxySelector;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
import java.time.Duration;

@Component
public class HttpExternalServiceImpl implements ExternalService {
    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(HttpExternalServiceImpl.class);

    @Override
    public boolean isAccessible() {
        HttpClient client;

        // Use System.getenv("AEM_PROXY_HOST") and proxy port System.getenv("AEM_HTTP_PROXY_PORT")
        // or System.getenv("AEM_HTTPS_PROXY_PORT"), depending on if the destination requires HTTP/HTTPS

        if (System.getenv("AEM_PROXY_HOST") != null) {
            // Create a ProxySelector that uses to AEM's provided AEM_PROXY_HOST, with a fallback of proxy.tunnel, and proxy port using the AEM_HTTP_PROXY_PORT variable.
            // If the destination requires HTTPS, then use the variable AEM_HTTPS_PROXY_PORT instead of AEM_HTTP_PROXY_PORT.

            ProxySelector proxySelector = ProxySelector.of(new InetSocketAddress(
                System.getenv().getOrDefault("AEM_PROXY_HOST", "proxy.tunnel"),
                Integer.parseInt(System.getenv().get("AEM_HTTP_PROXY_PORT"))));

            client = HttpClient.newBuilder().proxy(proxySelector).build();
            log.debug("Using HTTPClient with AEM_PROXY_HOST");
        } else {
            client = HttpClient.newBuilder().build();
            // If no proxy is set up (such as local dev)
            log.debug("Using HTTPClient without AEM_PROXY_HOST");
        }

        // Prepare the full URI to request, note this will have the
        // - Scheme (http/https)
        // - External host name
        // - External port
        // The external service URI, including the scheme/host/port, is defined in code, and NOT in Cloud Manager portForwards rules.
        URI uri = URI.create("http://api.example.com:8080/test.json");

        // Prepare the HttpRequest
        HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder().uri(uri).timeout(Duration.ofSeconds(2)).build();

        // Send the HttpRequest using the configured HttpClient
        HttpResponse<String> response = null;
        try {
            // Request the URL
            response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());

            log.debug("HTTP response body: {} ", response.body());

            // Our simple example returns true is response is successful! (200 status code)
            return response.statusCode() == 200;
        } catch (IOException e) {
            return false;
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            return false;
        }
    }
}
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