Enforce Agent HTTPS Connections

External connections to agents can currently be made using either HTTPS or HTTP. While we recommend the former for security reasons, the latter is supported to maintain compatibility with a number of customer applications which rely on the availability of HTTP connections.

If you wish to block HTTP connections to your own agent, this can be achieved very easily by incorporating the following code in your agent’s HTTP request handler function:

API Entities Used

• HTTP request handler function

Related Recipes

• Basic Internet-to-Agent Communications
• Long-polling Internet-to-Agent Communications

Further Reading

• Effective Internet-agent-device Communication