Apex Developer Guide

Apex Developer Guide
Release Notes
Getting Started with Apex
Writing Apex
Running Apex
Invoking Apex
Apex Transactions and Governor Limits
Using Salesforce Features with Apex
Integration and Apex Utilities
Invoking Callouts Using Apex
Adding Remote Site Settings
Named Credentials as Callout Endpoints
SOAP Services: Defining a Class from a WSDL Document
Invoking HTTP Callouts
Using Certificates
Generating Certificates
Using Certificates with SOAP Services
Using Certificates with HTTP Requests
Callout Limits and Limitations
Make Long-Running Callouts with Continuations
JSON Support
XML Support
ZIP Support
Securing Your Data
Encoding Your Data
Using Patterns and Matchers
Debugging, Testing, and Deploying Apex
Apex Reference
Appendices
PDF

Note: This release is in preview. Features described here don’t become generally available until the latest general availability date that Salesforce announces for this release. Before then, and where features are noted as beta, pilot, or developer preview, we can’t guarantee general availability within any particular time frame or at all. Make your purchase decisions only on the basis of generally available products and features.

Using Certificates with HTTP Requests

After you have generated a certificate in Salesforce, you can use it to support two-way authentication for a callout to an HTTP request.

To integrate the certificate with your Apex:

  1. Generate a certificate. Note the Unique Name of the certificate.
  2. In your Apex, use the setClientCertificateName method of the HttpRequest class. The value used for the argument for this method must match the Unique Name of the certificate that you generated in the previous step.

The following example illustrates the last step of the previous procedure. This example assumes that you previously generated a certificate with a Unique Name of DocSampleCert.

1HttpRequest req = new HttpRequest();
2req.setClientCertificateName('DocSampleCert');