If you use the AS2 protocol to send EDI messages to an EDI partner, use the AS2 web app to manage the interaction with the EDI partner.

The AS2 web app runs in the Azure cloud.

When you run a web service action using the AS2 protocol, an EDI message is sent to the AS2 web app.

The web service action calls the send method of the AS2 web app to send the data to the EDI partner.

The AS2 web app send method:

• Encrypts the data.
• Signs the data.
• Compresses the data, if applicable.
• Sends the data to the web server of the EDI partner.
• Receives an MDN reply from the web server of the EDI partner.
• Sends the MDN reply from the EDI partner to EDI history of the web service action in EDI studio that originally sent the data.

Notes

The EDI message body, as sent to the AS2 web app, for example, looks like:

{
    "encoding": "Binary",
    "documentContent":"PHJvb3Q+dGVzdCAyPC9yb290Pg==",
    "filename": "test.xml",
    "documentContentFormat": "Base64String"
}

Explanation of the body elements:

Body element	Required	Description	Default value
encoding	Yes	The encoding is parsed into Mimekit enum ContentEncoding.	Binary
documentContent	Yes	The content of the message.	-
filename	Yes	The filename is forwarded to the EDI partner.	-
documentContentFormat	No	The content format is set by an optional attribute on the web service action. If the attribute exists and no value is set, the default value PlainText is applied. If the attribute value is set to Base64String, the content is first decoded, and then processed.	PlainText