How to Use HTTP and HTTPS Ports

Applications that provide web applications and web services expose those through the HTTP or HTTPS ports of grid routers. The applications and web services are separated by the context roots. The context roots are part of the URL to each resource.

One way to get more information about those services is to point a web browser to one of the defined HTTP(S) ports. See Listing All Ports Exposed by Routers in a Grid for instructions about how to list the ports. In the list, locate an http(s) port and note the address that is used by the router. Point a web browser to the port using the listed address information, for example, http://<address>:<port>.

The displayed web page lists all web applications and web services. For each web application there is a link to that application. The links for the web services point to another information page that lets you display the WSDL file associated with the web service. This information is important when developing clients to the web services.