Web Request Task (Legacy)

The Web Request Task was substantially enhanced beginning with adTempus 6. This topic describes the features available if you are connected to an older version of the adTempus server. If the server is version 6 or later, see the current Web Request Task topic.

The Web Request task allows adTempus to request a page or file from a Web server or call a method on a Web service.

This task can be used to simply "ping" a URL on the server (for example, if the Web application has offline processing that is triggered by requesting a special URL on the server) or to download a page or file from the Web server.

Pages and files retrieved by the task can be saved in the job's history and/or written to a specified location on the adTempus server.

The Web Request Task is used to request a URL as part of job processing. If you want to trigger a job based on the response (or non-response) of a Web server, use the Computer Monitor Trigger instead.

To download files using FTP or SFTP, use the File Transfer Task.