The user name (login name) to use for connecting to the AS2 server. This is only required if the AS2 server needs the AS2 client to authenticate using either the BASIC or DIGEST authentication schemes.

The password to use for connecting to the AS2 server. This is only required if the AS2 server needs the AS2 client to authenticate using either the BASIC or DIGEST authentication schemes. After entering the password, you can optionally click the

Encrypt

button, which will encrypt the password when it is stored in

Managed File Transfer

's database.

Indicates whether or not the password is encrypted. You should choose

Yes

if you clicked the

Encrypt

button for the Password.

The maximum amount of time, in seconds, to wait when trying to establish a connection to the AS2 server. A timeout value of 0 (zero) is interpreted as an infinite wait time. If the field is left blank, the default value is 60 seconds.

The maximum amount of time, in seconds, to wait for a (read) response from the AS2 server. A timeout value of 0 (zero) is interpreted as an infinite wait time. If the field is left blank, then the default value is 0 (zero).

The number of times the AS2 Resource will attempt to connect if a connection cannot be established on the first attempt.

The number of seconds to wait between each connection retry attempt. If left blank, the retry interval is 0 (zero) seconds.

Specify whether or not to follow redirects. The default value is yes.

Specify whether or not to enable cookies. The default value is yes.

The user agent is the value used in the message header to indicate what application created or sent the message. The default value is

Managed File Transfer

/${currentProductVersion}.

Indicates if the length of the request will be pre-calculated or sent in chunks. Pre-calculating the content length may slow performance when sending large files, but not all AS2 servers support chunked encoding. The default setting is No.

A particular key within the default key store can be used for client authentication by indicating the key alias. The specified key will be used when required by the AS2 server. If you do not know the certificate name, click the icon to open the default Private Key Store and select the certificate alias. Certificates can be managed in

Managed File Transfer

's SSL Certificate Manager page.

Specify the protocol to use when creating the SSLContext. The value you need to specify here depends on the security providers you have installed in the JRE (Java Runtime Environment). In most cases, the default value (SSL) should just work fine. However, on some IBM JRE implementations the default value would not work if the server you are connecting to does not support SSLv3.