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Proxy Reference

A proxy abstracts the API to a layer that can be managed by API Manager. A proxy for a REST API should meet the following criteria:

  • Accepts incoming service calls from applications and routes them to the URI of the target API.

  • Copies any message headers from the service call and passes them along to the API.

  • Avoids passing internal Mule headers both to the API and back to the requester.

  • Captures message headers from the API response and attaches them to the response message.

  • Routes the response to the application that made the service call.

Here’s what a REST proxy might look like in Studio.

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The anatomy of a SOAP proxy is similar. From this structure, you can add additional functionality – to log data, for example.