When a workflow has been initiated by a webservice input component, the component Forward webservice can be used to forward the request to another URL.

This is currently only implemented together with the input type, REST webservice basic, where the option “Store request for later forwarding” is to be set.

The forward webservice component, sends the request to another URL, with the exact same HTTP method, body, parameters and headers as the input request, with the exception of the Authorization header which for security reasons is not forwarded. It is possible to overwrite or add additional HTTP headers to the request.

You can add more header/value headers, by clicking on the Add more icon on the right. You can delete a line by clicking on the trash can icon to the right of the line, that you want to delete.

The output payload from this component will be the response from the service that it was forwarded to, regardless of whether the request returned successful or failure status. In case of failure, the job log will show  an error, but the workflow execution continues.

The output type parameter can be used to set the expected output type. This is only relevant if the response from the forward is to be used in the workflow afterwards. In that case, the data type of the response should be selected here.