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CONNECT comes with two proxies for using adapters: Secured and Unsecured. The difference is whether or not it uses HTTPS over ports 8181, or open communication over 8080 on secured/private networks.
As Secured interface sends WS-Security header and SAML assertion in soap header while the unsecured interface do not send and process WS-Security header and SAML assertions. As these proxies call a potentially externally housed webservice, this means that the implementation does not have to be a Java based application and will work as long as they conform to the adapter requirement specs.
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