SAP ICF CLIENT ABEXA documentation, setup help and example usage

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ABAP as HTTP Client
This example demonstrates an ICF HTTP client .

ABAP_SOURCE_CODE
ABAP_EXEC

ABAP_DESCRIPTION
The factory method CREATE of the class CL_HTTP_CLIENT is used to create a client object for the address wikipedia.org . The reference variable client of the type
IF_HTTP_CLIENT points to this object. A specific request, which also contains the value of a user input, is added to the URI of the REQUEST object of the client object. The request is sent and the result is passed to the RESPONSE object of the client object. In the case in question, the HTML page produced by the requested is retrieved and displayed.

Note
The proxy setting for the HTTP client must be configured correctly in transaction SICF before this example can work.