External aliases: Am I missing something ?

[Former Member]

I'm new to BSP, and just exploring the SICF transaction. My question is why are there both internal and external aliases?

I can understand the concept of aliases, but the external aliases (from the documentation I've found) also allow slashes in the name.

So what is the benefit of that over internal aliases? It must be a dumb question or else something only appericated in a Production environment.

Thanks

Phil

[philip_kisloff]

Thanks, Raja, but my understanding is that the same can also be said of internal aliases. I'm sorry to be pedantic, but my question was not why use external aliases, but why have <i>both</i> internal and external aliases.

If I understand you correctly, external aliases allow you to have / in the URL path. But that explaination begs the question of why have internal aliases as well.

I'm thinking there must be an explaination as to why (I think I've got what they do from the documentation). For instance, is that experienced BSP practioners welcome the differentiation because [please fill in the rest...]

Phil

[athavanraja]

lets say you want shorter urls for your BSPs or you dont want users to see the complete path of your BSP you can use external aliases.

for. ex. the following BSP application

http://host.domain.com:port/sap/bc/bsp/sap/<yourbsp>.deault.htm

can be acessed with a url

http://host.domain.com:port/mysite/mybsp

by create a exteranl alias /mysite/mybsp and set the target element to your actual application (which lies in sap/bc/bsp/sap/<application>

Regards

Raja